Taron Egerton Quotes
I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
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I'm not graceful.
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Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.
