Eva Pigford (Eva Marcille Pigford) Quotes
The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
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I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.
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The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.
