Kara DioGuardi Quotes
I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.
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I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.
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I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.
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Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.
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I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
