Joan Osborne Quotes
Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's just been so true to me. And I do try to take some practices of that into my daily life. Whether that's meditating or trying to see the world from that perspective.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.
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I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
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I am extremely pained by the methodology adopted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in coming to some figures which have no basis whatsoever. Their exercise was fraught with very serious errors.
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I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn't think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: 'Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.' They'd written it up without any sense of irony.
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Security services, from Afghanistan to the United States, should be alert throughout the Ramadan period, but especially on the 27th day of the holy month.
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You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.
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Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.
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Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.
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We focus so much on our relationships with other people, and beauty, for me, is about facilitating your relationship with yourself.
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There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
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My hip-hop fans are a little spoiled - they want a particular level of lyricism and energy that I'm known for. When they don't get that, it takes a little time for them to open up to it. But electronic fans are as free as the music. On social media, they were so excited and loud; they're in awe.
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Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's just been so true to me. And I do try to take some practices of that into my daily life. Whether that's meditating or trying to see the world from that perspective.
