Lianne La Havas Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.
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During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.
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The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.
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That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.
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If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.
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It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.
