Kathy Freston Quotes
Being a veganist is good for your health, it's good for the environment, and it's certainly good for the animals, but it also has a powerful spiritual component. When you begin eating consciously, with compassion and thoughtfulness, you attain a certain lightness and inner peace, a sense of connectedness to the larger world.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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I already am a product.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I'm going to miss that character.
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
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Being a veganist is good for your health, it's good for the environment, and it's certainly good for the animals, but it also has a powerful spiritual component. When you begin eating consciously, with compassion and thoughtfulness, you attain a certain lightness and inner peace, a sense of connectedness to the larger world.
