Gwen Stefani Quotes
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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A timeless pop song is the hardest thing to do as a songwriter.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
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We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.
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I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.