Taylor Swift Quotes
'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I don't have many friends.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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You've got to be realistic.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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For me, the most luxurious place is somewhere that allows you to feel emotions and pleasures.
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The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation.
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I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself - to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.
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People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
