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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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.
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When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.
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Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
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I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42.
