NeNe Leakes (Linnethia Monique "NeNe" Leakes) Quotes
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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Anything's possible in politics.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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I am always fascinated by India.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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The public always picks quality.
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Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it's not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.
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My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.
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I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.
