Harley Viera-Newton Quotes
My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.
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I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
