Isabel Gillies Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.
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You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
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I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless, faceless strangers were my family. They gave me an education, put food on the table and clothes on my back. I am who I am because of that formative experience. Now I am paying it forward.
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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
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Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.
