Philomena Kwao Quotes
I think that the plus-size industry has been great with size diversity, but it hasn't really been great for skin tone diversity.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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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've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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When you follow your heart's calling, you wind up becoming your most powerful self. You don't need to take power from others if you can tap into your own inner power.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are really beneficial or hurtful.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
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I think that the plus-size industry has been great with size diversity, but it hasn't really been great for skin tone diversity.
