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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To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.
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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'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
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On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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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.
