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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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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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 forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.
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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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My favorite song will always be 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos, because my granddaughter was named after it.
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My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.
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You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.
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Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.
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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.
