Jeff Raikes Quotes
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
Orlando Bloom -
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
Dan Pink -
Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
Carla Gugino -
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden -
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
Forest Whitaker
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
Victoria Hanley -
I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
Yuna -
I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
A. R. Rahman -
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
Uday Kiran -
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
Karin Slaughter
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It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
Frances Conroy -
I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
Latrell Sprewell -
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.
Gary McCord -
If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
Adam Grant
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We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.
Eleanor Catton -
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
Michael Faraday -
To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.
William S. Burroughs -
At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.
Jeff Raikes