Alisa Xayalith Quotes
There’s a lot of pressure on women in music. Even if we’ve done the most incredible things, there’s always that smidge of insecurity. It’s like trying to train yourself to groom your ego a bit and tell yourself that you are enough.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.
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Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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There’s a lot of pressure on women in music. Even if we’ve done the most incredible things, there’s always that smidge of insecurity. It’s like trying to train yourself to groom your ego a bit and tell yourself that you are enough.
