Brandi Chastain Quotes
I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.
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I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.
