Tionne Watkins Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I'm evangelical.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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Only a fool loves war. Or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
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There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.
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I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42.
