Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor) Quotes
I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal.
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I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.
