Wendy Whelan Quotes
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.
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I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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The financial crisis and the Great Recession posed the most significant macroeconomic challenges for the United States in a half-century, leaving behind high unemployment and below-target inflation and calling for highly accommodative monetary policies.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.
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I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.
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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.
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My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
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We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
