Elsa Barker Quotes
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
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Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
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I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
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You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.
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I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
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The balanced relation is the purest representation of universality, of the harmony and unity which are inherent characteristics of the mind.
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God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you’re present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.
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I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.
