Halima Aden Quotes
I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
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My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
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I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song and they would all work together, I would.
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'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
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Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!