Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Those who go along get along.
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If my work is liked, not just Karan Johar or Remo D'Souza, anyone would give me roles.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.
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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
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I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.
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I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
