Jessie J Quotes
As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
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I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.
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Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.
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When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!
