Rachel Platten Quotes

Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.

Rachel Platten

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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Jessica Livingston

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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

John James Audubon

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It's actually sexist to accuse men as a whole of something, you know? It's just - I don't know. A guy can't even open a door for a lady without being called a pig.

Stormy Daniels

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Conducting 'Tristan' is like floating in amniotic fluid, but having worked on it for three months, I now know why people who go near it go so strange.

Simon Rattle

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No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.

Tom Peters

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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Robert Baden-Powell

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The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.

Robert Barany

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I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

Mitch Hedberg

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The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

Dominic Cooper

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I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

Clarence Clemons

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You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.

Brian Helgeland

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