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Rihanna Quotes

Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 20, 1988

Topics

Music Focus Me Story I Can Tell

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

Father Mother Childhood Government

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

Life Problems American Down Bring

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

History Romantic Tradition Organic

For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Work Great Key Honor Giving Watches

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

Goals Dance Me Goal Movies Paint

To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Age Health Old Age Storm Survival

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

You Out Different Regulations Until

No, I was never afraid.

Aung San Suu Kyi

My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game.

Cooking Job Team Game Now More

It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.

Science You Maintenance Housekeeping

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Thomas Jefferson

Friend Government I Am Always Own

Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.

Mario Balotelli

Car Age Sacrifice You House Nice

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