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Dido Armstrong Quotes

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

Dido Armstrong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: December 25, 1971

Topics

Childhood Decisions My Own Outside

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

Jim Broadbent

You Artist Lost Know Her Polished

With us, it's a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you.

Jerry Only

You Steak Audience Us Like Specific

I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Andrea Bocelli

Me Relax Important Try Always Carry

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

Maya Lin

Creative Think Thinking You Down

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Matt Taibbi

Best Politics Losing Winning Think

In the press, it has been said that I ran a foreclosure machine.

Steve Mnuchin

Said Been Press Machine Ran

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

Roberta Smith

Fishing Baseball Poetry Roses Easy

I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Man Hardships Physical Known Passed

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

Jonathan Haidt

Change Focus People Believe You

Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.

Douglas Rushkoff

Simple Learn Person Know Understand

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.

Ariel Sharon

Responsibility Decision People Feel

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

William R. Alger

God Peace Victory Destiny Strike