Walter Alston Quotes
The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
