Gwen Stefani Quotes
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.
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There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
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I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
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My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
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The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
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My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
