Rachel Roy Quotes
I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
Quotes to Explore
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.
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Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.
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When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.
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I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
