Lauren London Quotes
I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I've found that one's language abilities, especially for Korean kids like me, get frozen at the age you immigrated. So I've always associated Korea with being a child and being infantilized through my inability to speak.
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
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The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
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You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.
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A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.
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I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.
