Joan Smalls Quotes
I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
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Binge viewing has been around since DVD box sets.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.
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There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.
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My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
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My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.
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Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
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My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.
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I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
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What kids see on the internet is mostly pornography and that is dangerous. The internet is being used as a platform for misinformation, selling spurious drugs and for terrorist activities. It is a great medium but being misused to bring about disaffection among people.
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Within the context of life, I am the centrist pragmatist who doesn't even vote; within the context of sports, I am a potential war criminal.
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
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The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.
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She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.
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For the most part, these awards shows, while they are fun, they're high-pressure for the people who are nominated and for those walking the red carpet.
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I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
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The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly.
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I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
