Barbara DeGenevieve Quotes
As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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There are just so many brilliant voices out there. I'm not the funniest person out there, I'm not the best interviewer. I'm not the best at anything, but I really just am a big fan of everyone. I'm really driven by trying to make sure that representation is out there.
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I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.
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The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.
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There will be people who don't like you or aren't convinced. I'd rather let my work talk than justify in words.
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As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.
