Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.
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I'm very shy and awkward; I can't have a normal conversation, and then people think I'm being a bit rude, but really I'm not.
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You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
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And I always try to make a clean, honest, product and ideas for people to get into that can transcend time. Like the Dougie.
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Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.
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I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
