Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.
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What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.
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For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Don’t be one of those souls who says, ‘If only I had my life to live over.’ Live your life in such a way that once is enough.
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It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.
