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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I'm really blessed to have an amazing family.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Throughout history new and correct ideas have often failed at the outset to win recognition from the majority of people and have to develop by twists and turns in struggle. Often correct and good things have first been regarded not as fragrant flowers but poisonous weeds.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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They were also the tracks on which we channelled a love of Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder. Ian Curtis had first introduced us to the icy Germans, and that was quickly followed by an even greater admiration for Moroder, particularly his work with Donna Summer on ‘I Feel Love’ and his production of the wonderful Sparks track ‘Number One Song in Heaven’. His solo record E=MC2 became a big inspiration and definitely led us into ‘Temptation’. All we had to do was work out how they bloody did it.
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We need to do more to prevent radicalization, the inspiration of terrorism in this country.
