Nafisa Joseph Quotes
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I love New York. Love it.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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Acoustic space is totally discontinuous, like touch. It is a sphere without centers or margins.
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You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.
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I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris.
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There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
