Nikki Haley (Nimrata "Nikki" Haley) Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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Teaching is in my blood.
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For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
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Any team can have a bad century.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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Mere abuse is no criticism.
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In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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My first husband dragged me out of London and made me live in the suburbs in Surrey - not where you want to be when you're 23.
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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
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I think the media's a little frightened of women.
