Leila Slimani Quotes
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
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There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and desire to take the kinds of risks that jazz musicians routinely need to be taking.
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Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.
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Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.
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The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.
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Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.
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'Lullaby' is about boundaries.
