Alessia Cara Quotes

I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.

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• You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

  

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• Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.

  

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

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• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

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• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

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• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

  

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• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

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• I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

  

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• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

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• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

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• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
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• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
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• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

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• May God protect me from gloomy saints.

  

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• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

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• I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

  

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• Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

  

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• I personally think that the visibility that the Cowboys have, the kind of interest we have, is best served and best used by showing people that are contrite, know the mistakes they've made, and want to try to go in a different direction.

  

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• I think we can build democracy in Pakistan. But it will take time. And it will be a Pakistani democracy. Not one that's imposed by...someone else.

  

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• I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.

  

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• If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.

  

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• I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Listening