Laura Mvula Quotes
You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.
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It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.
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It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
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To me, the level of responsibility is measured by one's ability to confront the decision-making process without any delay or distraction.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
