Paloma Ayana Stoecker (Delilah) Quotes
Occasionally, I share advice, but most of my advice is based on my personal experience.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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I find my motivation from everyone who looks up to me and my teammates. From the little girls that look up to me and tell me they want to be like me when they grow up.
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The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.
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I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.
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Jeff's, Larry's, and Ron's Heres Your Sign.
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Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.
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Occasionally, I share advice, but most of my advice is based on my personal experience.
