Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
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I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of the people, this could also mean overthrowing the regime.
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People have a right to their opinion.
