Tavi Gevinson Quotes
A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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My health is fine.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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… I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.
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Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
