Christina Aguilera Quotes
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.
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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.
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I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
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The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
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My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
