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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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.
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There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
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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.
