Nicola Sturgeon Quotes
I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
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What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
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What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.
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Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.
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I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.
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I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.
