Kamla Persad-Bissessar Quotes
As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
