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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There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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'We must never forget that if Christ had been so inclined, he would not have come and there will be no Christmas to celebrate.'
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You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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The Prophet (saw) said, A man follows the religion of his friend; so each one should consider whom he makes his friend.
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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.
