Kirstjen Nielsen Quotes
We need to do more to prevent radicalization, the inspiration of terrorism in this country.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
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What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times - as a black man in the American streets. I know what it feels like to walk through the streets, knowing what it is to be in this body and how certain people respond to that body.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates. Well, Eleanor is absolutely furious. And because they don't want her to walk away in 1924, she wins. And this is a great political victory. She has floor space equal to the men, and she has the right to name the women.
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We need to do more to prevent radicalization, the inspiration of terrorism in this country.
