Alessia Cara Quotes
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.
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He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.
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If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
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I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.
