Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously.
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I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.
