General quotes
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
To be immortalized in a ride is a very cooI thing.
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life — unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours — the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking', because I didn't look like the girl next door. But I was just normal. I was the girl next door. There were people in high fashion I could better relate to who were doing something more interesting and not talking this sort of rubbish.
Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Play is the exultation of the possible.
Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.
Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.
