Nina Garcia Quotes
You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.
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My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
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There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.
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You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.
