Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes

The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

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• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

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• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

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• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

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• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

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• I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

  

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• A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

  

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• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

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• What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

  

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• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

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• We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

  

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• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

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• In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

  

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• When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

  

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• A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

  

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• Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.

  

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• I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

  

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• There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

  

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• Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.

  

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• Wear your smile today. It looks so good on you.

  

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• The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

  

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• There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

  

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• The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Career
  • Always