Christy Turlington Quotes
Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.
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I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
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What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities.
