"What happens when I'm making a new album is I try not to listen to music that's coming out at the time. I turn off the radio and don't read any music blogs, because I tend to get really distracted by new music. When I hear it, I think, "Should I be doing that?""

-- Nadine Shah

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“Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.”
“It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say â€œwe" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.”
“I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.”
“Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.”
“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.”
“This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brotherâ€™s crazy. He thinks heâ€™s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why donâ€™t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess thatâ€™s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know theyâ€™re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.”
“Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
“Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.”

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