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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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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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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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.
