Tionne Watkins Quotes
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I only listen to Lil Wayne.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.
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There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn.
