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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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.
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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.
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Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
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We need to do more to prevent radicalization, the inspiration of terrorism in this country.
