Sara Blakely Quotes
It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.
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I try to take each moment at a time.
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Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.
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Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.
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When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
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The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.
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It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
