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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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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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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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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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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No two wars are identical.
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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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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.
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Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.
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I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.
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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.
