Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Country
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• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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  • Game
  • Morning

• As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Father
  • Son
  • Name

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
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  • Writing
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• I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Mind
  • Child
  • Look

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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  • Girl
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• In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • First
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• In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Having
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• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
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• We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.

  

  Najib Mikati
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  • Look
  • Wellbeing

• My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics

• I want to be someone who is doing something solid. And I am doing my thing. You can like it or not, but I know that now I have a really nice group of really cool and talented actors that follow me. It's the same for them. They have a special connection with my movies because we do these movies differently.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
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  • Cool
  • Connection

• Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Fight

• By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
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  • Country
  • Father