Jennifer Pahlka Quotes

Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.

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• I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

  

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

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• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

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• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

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• I still have a young attitude.

  

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• Hear the other side.

  

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• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
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• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

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• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

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• I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

  

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• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

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• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

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• I like to do Pilates.

  

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• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

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• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  

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• I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.

  

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• She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

  

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• I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

  

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• I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

  

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• True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

  

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• Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

  

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• Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind