Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.
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It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
