Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Quotes
That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
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I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.
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I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
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There's no such thing as trends. There's no such thing as style, even. It's just whatever you feel.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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I love to be in Hawaii - everything very natural, and my style reflects that.
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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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If I were asked to summarize as briefly as possible my vision of things, to reduce it to its most succinct expression, I should replace words with an exclamation point, a definitive !
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Tough like a Ukulele.
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My sister's tall, thin, model-esque.
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I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another.
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That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.
