Rachel Sklar Quotes
Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.
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Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.
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I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.
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I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.
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Everyone has areas they're not comfortable with, and mine are my bum, thighs, and legs.
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This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.
