Chirlane McCray Quotes

I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.

Chirlane McCray

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Impact

• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Parents
  • Me
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• We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Innovation
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• Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
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• Let the path be open to talent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
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  • Friction

• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Strength

• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
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• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Need

• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Acting
  • Place
  • Opera

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
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• I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Day
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• If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Write
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• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Model
  • Personality
  • Say

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
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• Some guys just slip under the radar.

  

  Victor Cruz
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• President Trump, in a lot of ways - not just on policy but in terms of style - is everything that Hawaii is not.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Style
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• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Simplicity
  • Proportion
  • Suitable

• Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

  

  Rue McClanahan
  • Fashion
  • Cruelty
  • Statements

• I don't want to be known as this bitter, ex-Scientologist. I'm not trying to bash anybody, and I'm not trying to be controversial. I just want people to know the truth.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.

  

  Danny K. Davis
  • America
  • Help
  • City

• I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Work
  • Job