Irina Shayk Quotes
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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There's a bizarre comfort and safety in doing your last and most intimate scenes with the actor you've worked most closely.
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I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
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The most important thing in life is to love what you're doing, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.
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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
