Alaine Chartrand Quotes
After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.
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I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.
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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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I've always known the greatness of black people.
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I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.
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Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.
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We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.
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Babies are fun for punting. Even a lousy kicker can get one almost all the way over a football field.
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Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
