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 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'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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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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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
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You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
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I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
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People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
