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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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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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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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.
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What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.
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In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
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When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.
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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
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People have a right to their opinion.
