Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Quotes
I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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Great books are rare.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.
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Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.
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I never for a moment considered not doing the show. When I did the show I became very emotional. Some of the lyrics suddenly took on an entirely different meaning. Words like, 'as if we never said goodbye' became more real.
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The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.
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When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
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I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.
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Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.
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There's something to be said about just being vulnerable. Every woman has gone through something in her life that has been an image issue, or it has been something where somebody told her she's not good enough. And every woman can relate to that.
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I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.
