Laurie Helgoe Quotes
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

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Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.
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When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
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I just don’t like it, for extremely large values of don’t and like.
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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.
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My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
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I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.