Rachel Platten Quotes
I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.
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Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
