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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I had underwear thrown on stage that said 'Gokey' on the back... all glittery! It was grandma-underwear, too.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
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Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.
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As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.
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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.
