Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (Lykke Li) Quotes
I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?
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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.
