Tracy Chapman Quotes

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

Tracy Chapman

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I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

Joan Jett

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In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

Andy Behrman

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When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? It needs to be prioritised, even incentivised.

Matthew Walker

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When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

Andy Kindler

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It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Michael Haneke

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I really don't feel it's necessary, as an actor, to make people feel uncomfortable, just because you need to be in a certain headspace. So, I do take myself away and do my own work and hunker down.

Tom Weston-Jones

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I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

Micky Dolenz

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You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Jorge Ramos

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Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

Dean Ornish

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Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.

Bonnie Bassler

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I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.

Apolo Ohno

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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Sylvester Stallone

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