Laura Mvula Quotes
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
Laura Mvula
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
Mallory Ortberg
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Abel Ferrara
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
Sam Hunt
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
Ed Sheeran
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
Mandy Patinkin
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Captain Beefheart
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
Randy Houser
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
Ed Rendell
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Eartha Kitt
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I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.
Kim Kardashian
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
Waris Ahluwalia
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
Ian Hart
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God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.
Lauren Myracle
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People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
Lee Iacocca
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
Laura Mvula
