Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.
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You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal.
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If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
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If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.
