Sara Blakely Quotes
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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I think of myself as an actor.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.
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I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
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High among the costs of immigration is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas' Disease and leprosy are surfacing here...
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At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
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It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
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Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
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People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.
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I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
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I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
