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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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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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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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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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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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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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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My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
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It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
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I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.
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We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
