Norah Jones Quotes
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I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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I've always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
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The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair Mews at his knee for dainty fare; Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse. In the dewy fields the cattle lie Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky; Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.
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Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.
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For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
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I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.
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Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.
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It never rains when you want it to You humble me, Lord
