Nikki Haley (Nimrata "Nikki" Haley) Quotes
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
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I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl's. I can't wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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Immigration is a privilege, and we should not let anyone into this country who doesn’t support our communities. All of our communities, every single one of them.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.
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It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.
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My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my dad's such a character at the dinner table.
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I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
