Debra Wilson Quotes
If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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A well begun is half ended.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
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I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.
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I wish I'd become a professional dancer sooner. I did other jobs - like baking - while dancing part-time, and didn't commit until I was 29.
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Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
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Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
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If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.
