Andrea Corr Quotes
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.
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'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'
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Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.
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Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
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I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?
