Anais Nin Quotes
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
