Alexa Von Tobel Quotes
I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Everything I say is true.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.
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Going on safari in South Africa was hardcore but a lot of fun - though my friend Maura was absolutely freaking out about all the bugs in her hair and having to pee in the sand.
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India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'
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I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.
