Labrinth Quotes
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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I am trying every genre.
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The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987
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When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
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I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.
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To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
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We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.
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My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.
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I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.
