David Farragut Quotes
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I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
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Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.
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Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
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Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
