Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
Quotes to Explore
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'
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It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
