Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes
When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.
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When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
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I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.
