Nicole Trunfio Quotes
I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
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To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.
