Olly Alexander Quotes
Your struggles can be your fuel. So long as they don’t consume you, they can be the energy that propels you.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
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I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
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The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.
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What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.
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Your struggles can be your fuel. So long as they don’t consume you, they can be the energy that propels you.
