Sara Blakely Quotes
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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He who gives love, receives love.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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You can't take good health for granted.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!
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Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
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An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life.
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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
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I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.
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Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.
