Alessia Cara Quotes
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
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When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.
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I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
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I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
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Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.
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Empirical laws ... have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.
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An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.
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The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.
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I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. As a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that's something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.
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I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.
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The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.
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I would never wear anything because someone told me to.
