Caroline Dhavernas Quotes
People have told me it's like Touched by an Angel on acid. I think that's a good description.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.
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So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
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Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
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You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches.
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I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.
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But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.
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People have told me it's like Touched by an Angel on acid. I think that's a good description.
