Alice Walton Quotes
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I have always been an active part of my community.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
