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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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.
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I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.
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When people ask me where I get my ideas, I lie. I tell them I draw inspiration from the news, the world, my dreams. Or I joke and say that I steal from other writers. I lie because I don't know where ideas come from, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, they'll stop coming.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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We need to do more to prevent radicalization, the inspiration of terrorism in this country.
