Portia Simpson-Miller Quotes
I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.Portia Simpson-Miller
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
Gary Ackerman -
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
Sally Pearson -
As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.
Yami Gautam -
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
Nargis Fakhri -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
J. K. Simmons
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
Beck -
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant -
I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
Aaron Paul -
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
Karen Handel -
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Imre Lakatos -
I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
Ian Thorpe
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There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.
Kim Cattrall -
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
George R. R. Martin -
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
Talcott Parsons -
I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
Lisa Marie Presley -
Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.
Dennis Quaid -
I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.
Portia Simpson-Miller