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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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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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 was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.
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All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
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A 'lewk' is like, 'I'm wearing a lewk today,' it's something that everybody will notice. It's like you're out of the pages of a magazine, that's a lewk.
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A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.
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Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
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Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.
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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.
