Marla Gibbs Quotes
The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I'd have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.
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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
