Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t.
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A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I'm always the one sitting at the merch table and talking to everyone at the show - and I think it's because I have this deep fear that if I'm not approachable or I'm not there, people are going to think I'm a brat.
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I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye - who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.
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I'm lactose intolerant, so usually pizza makes me feel horrible. But I'll occasionally go very hard and do pizza and pineapple.
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Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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Zippy is living in the moment.
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It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
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I always wanted to be like my dad.
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I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
