Miriam Schapiro Quotes
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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Everything has positive and negative consequences.
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I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
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The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.
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Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.
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First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.
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Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
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Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.
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I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.
