Yami Gautam Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
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Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
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We’ve had to change our approach for how we do it all, but, ultimately, the one thing counts is being able to play live.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
