Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I think every actor fantasizes about a show where you get to play several characters in one piece and not just Detective Bluestone asking what time you were at the station.
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It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
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I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.
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What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.
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There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
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I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?