Christina Aguilera Quotes
My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
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I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
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My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fortunately, I do feel like there is a movement against homophobia, and I hope to be part of that.
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With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.
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Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
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My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
