Les Dawson Quotes
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
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Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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When you like something, you find time to do it.
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
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People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.
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Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.
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My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
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I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.
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What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon Teutonic racial superiority over
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Slumps don't bother me.
