Rachel Platten Quotes
I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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The UFC didn't want me to fight there so what could I do? We were unable to make a deal. They offered unacceptable conditions.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
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We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around. The people involved in protecting those elephants, like rangers on the ground, are so under-resourced. They have very few vehicles, they have very poor weapons (if any weapons at all), and they are treated as the bottom of the tree when it comes to law enforcement priority.
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
