Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
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My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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My high-school friends and I felt part of a community of smart, forward-looking space and technology freaks.
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The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.
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God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.
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Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.
