China Machado Quotes
Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
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The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.
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Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
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The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
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Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.
