Rachel Platten Quotes
I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.
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'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.
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When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.
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Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
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Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
