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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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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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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Babies are fun for punting. Even a lousy kicker can get one almost all the way over a football field.
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Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
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People remember you as you leave a program not in the middle of it or how you came in. And I think that's something they're all trying to focus on.
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I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.
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I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.
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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.
