Danielle Brooks Quotes
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.
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I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.
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If you want me to play second, I need time to get ready to play second. If you want me to play short, I need time.
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I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
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People say, Well, he wore that body out. Well, maybe I did. But it was to a good purpose. They should be thankful that I wore it out to the purpose I wore it out and that was writing and recording and touring and doing concerts. Everywhere I could possibly do them that I thought I might enjoy them. I thought people might enjoy me.
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Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.
