Gwen Stefani Quotes
I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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Be original. That’s all that matters........Take inspiration from others, but always make something new.
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I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.
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I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
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I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.
