Kiesa Rae Ellestad (Kiesza) Quotes
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that's a big win.
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I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.
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When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
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I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either.
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
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What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.
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Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.
