Kim Jong-un Quotes
Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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As far as people I'd like to work with, the list is endless. I think to work with Steve McQueen would be amazing, and then some of the U.K. talent we have: Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman, both of whom I have met and admired for a long time. We're very blessed in this country; there is so much talent for people to work with and learn from.
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
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Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.
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Where equality is enthroned, freedom is extinguished. The rise of the egalitarian society means the death of the free society.
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
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Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.
