Emil Ferris Quotes
I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
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I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
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That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
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I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.
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The state of the world terrifies me. It feels more powerful personally to fight it through larger actions as opposed to trying to fight the Trump administration itself. It's sort of self-preservation for my mental health. If I spend too much of my energy and my brain on Trump, I'd lose my mind.
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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
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I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.
