Leighton Meester Quotes
When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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I am a businessman.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
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So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
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People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio.
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Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
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When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.
