Kathy Ireland Quotes
So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I like things simple.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.
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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
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Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.
