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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying Quotes
The gap between what's said and what's meant.
This set focuses on the friction around saying things: doubts other people voice about an unusual project, the strangeness of writing lyrics meant for someone else's voice, and family conflicts that get said and later forgiven. It pairs well with our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying no to a project is not easy. I'm always under the impression that I might end up upsetting the director or producer of a film.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first year I scored 10 goals in La Liga. Then people started saying 'yeah, the new Messi.'
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.
- Negativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything people are saying about her - all that negativity - it's garbage. That's not my mother.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.
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