Kamla Persad-Bissessar Quotes
Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
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Over the years of running Into The Gloss, I began to see a gap in the way beauty companies were creating products and marketing them to women. There wasn't one brand that really spoke to girls like me, who created products for real life. So we set out to create that brand with Glossier.
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The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
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... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!
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In food, it's really, like, either you're right, or you're wrong. You know, people's taste buds kind of vary, but there's a technique. Either you do it right, or you don't.
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Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
