Christie Brinkley Quotes
My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
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The phrase 'no burden' largely captured what I wish people believed about themselves.
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At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
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My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.
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A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.
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I don't interest myself that much.
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The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
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My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.
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For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.
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It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
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I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
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It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.
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One thing to avoid is trendy stuff, though - you gotta go timeless. Even if you want a little luxury in your life and you want to splurge on a Gucci bag, pick a great black one you can wear all the time.
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My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.
