Tavi Gevinson Quotes
Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.
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I'll be alright Once I find the other side Of someday
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I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
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While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
