Sara Blakely Quotes
You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.
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You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.
