Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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I am healthy and happy.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.
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We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.
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A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
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The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
