Sade Adu Quotes

From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

Sade Adu

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If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

John L. Phillips

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After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.

Steven Shainberg

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I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

Simon Cowell

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Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?

Tracy Lawrence

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I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

Tom Robbins

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If someone asks me a question, that says they appreciate what I do and that's nice. And I know what it was like when I was a kid to want to interact with a top player.

Mary Pierce

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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Doris Day

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You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Douglas Conant

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I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Sharon Stone

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Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.

Leo Varadkar

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A lot of people decide, if you're mixed, you're black. And so they try to force you to choose a culture.

Kendrick Sampson

CulturePeopleBlackYouChooseTry

Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.

Jamie Wyeth

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