Sarah Churchwell Quotes

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

Sarah Churchwell

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MusicIdentityQuestionsEmotionsUs

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

Jessica Raine

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We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

John Clayton

RealityMatterRealAssumingExist

I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

Matt Lauer

WalkSayingEverythingGoingAround

Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.

Siri Hustvedt

TimeDeathMindEmbraceUnderstand

Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won't do.

Mitt Romney

Donald TrumpOutTrumpReallyWives

I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.

Joyce Giraud

WorkChocolateHouseOverEatOut

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

Jay-Z

ArtistChoiceFirstAlwaysOutGet

We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?

Brendon Burchard

LifeLiveBusinessInspireBetter

You can be really weird, and people will still accept you if you're in movies. I'm not actually weird, but if I feel like being weird, then I can do it, and they accept it because you're an actor.

Ansel Elgort

PeopleWeirdFeelYouI CanMovies

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

Wyclef Jean

UncleGrandfatherI Was RaisedPriest

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

Peter Steele

AlcoholBigBig FanFanEffects

It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society.

Pope Benedict XVI

LifeSocietyChurchChristianLiving

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