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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Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.
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There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
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I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
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People are living vicariously through others, to be sure. As much as they hate it ... they get to live that through seeing it.
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You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.
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I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
