Lauren Tom Quotes
From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
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At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
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For a major publisher like Time Inc. to embrace Bitcoin sends an important message to both its readers and to the broader media community.
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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
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For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.
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I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.
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The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...
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From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.
