Madison Davenport Quotes
I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish.
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The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
