M.C. Brockert (Teena Marie) Quotes
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
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Actors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
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Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those 'special songs' of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd 'rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.'
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I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.
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Es más fácil levantar la caída que no dejarla caer. Déjala caer y la levantarás.
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Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.
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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
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Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.
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Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
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There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
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OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?
