Kamla Persad-Bissessar Quotes
I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
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For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
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I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.
