Gabrielle Aplin Quotes

I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

Gabrielle Aplin

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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.

Jidenna

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I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

Jeff Lindsay

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The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.

Mencius

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When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

John Trudell

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So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Simon Newcomb

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In the Great Mongol Empire, Mongols governed by a written law called the 'Ih Zasag,' which is translated as 'the Great Order.' It was an era when the Mongols strove to establish a new world order, thus, justice, peace and cooperation in their relations with other states and peoples.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

Roy Harper

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

William Samuel Johnson

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I was an officer in my student council.

Niki Tsongas

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I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

Ric Ocasek

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Every word I write I suspect the next day.

Richard Burton

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France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Marianne Faithfull

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