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Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.
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your faith and hope are in god.
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It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you ...
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Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't bloc...
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Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.
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The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinkin...
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Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY
You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea. (on the assassinatio...
SHIMON PERES
Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ
Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI
Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
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call it chicken salad
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Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
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If there are trust issues during the dating period, marriage is not going to solve it! #Tip
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It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I ...
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We should be ready for a change.
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What a glorious day!
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In the eyes of God, we're all perfect and we all have unlimited capacity to express brilliantly. I s...
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I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my ...
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There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all ...
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I love dressing up.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated b...
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I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing ver...
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you d...
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bo...
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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'...
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it...
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a...
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I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don...
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And...
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way....
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There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love P...
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that...
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delv...
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I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very u...
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I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ev...
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would ac...
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes f...
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people ...
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic sou...
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I w...
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-g...
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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a...
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, '...
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I quite like androgyny.
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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a s...
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... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters...
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediat...
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My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in th...
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet ground...
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't oth...
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is whe...
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Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality...
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like ...
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When people run in circles it's a very very... mad world.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I hav...
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and ...
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I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get rea...
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things t...
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I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really li...
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolut...
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry ...
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The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with con...
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I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. ...
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt lik...
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting,...
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brillia...
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challeng...
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I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element...
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I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts...
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I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I ...
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When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in ...
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a...
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I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have ...
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The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
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This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of...
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It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
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Just Be LOVE!
DIAN HUFF KISER
I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonist...
EHUD BARAK
Keeping what you have is hard like searching for what you've lost.
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To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe th...
GERMANY KENT
I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only...
CHERYL STRAYED
Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w...
RAY BRADBURY
Invite someone to do something fun.
ELIZABETH B. KNAUS
The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN
Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.
EMMA RAVELING
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER
Since meeting with Mr. Pym was the responsibility of the current Lord Ramsay, Cam bullied Leo into a...
LISA KLEYPAS
Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER
You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER
He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER
Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER
Reach for the stars.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE

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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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Peace has no borders.
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I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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Yes to Peace, No to Violence.
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Enough of blood and tears. Enough!
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Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.
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Always dream big and dare to believe!
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I've got 10 of them in my name right now.
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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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We must never bend too much.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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