Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
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I don't really worry about the weather... as long as you have good access to the stadium, that's the one thing you worry about.
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In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
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My role model, my idol, was Francois Truffaut.
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Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
