Rachel Roy Quotes
Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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I love 'Pac-man', 'Mortal Kombat', and 'Street Fighter'. 'Ryu' is my favourite-ever character - I'd love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played '2K17'.
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Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find - at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers - unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.
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I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.
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In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
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Those who choose love – daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life – will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
