Christina Perri Quotes
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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Whether it's performing a concert with my quartet or sitting in with my peers, enjoying musical conversations at home with my brothers or hanging and playing choro with my friends - sharing moments in that bright space of music are the happiest times.
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A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
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At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
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You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
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Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
