Retta (Marietta Sangai Sirleaf) Quotes

I remember doing stand-up at an open mic a long time ago, and the MC was like, 'Who's next?' I said, 'Marietta Sirleaf,' and he was like, 'What?' And I was like, 'Ugh, okay, just Retta.' It stuck with me ever since.

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• While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
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• I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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• Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.

  

  Zack Greinke
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• I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

  

  Rami Malek
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• Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
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• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
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• Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

  

  Rachel Gibson
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• Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

  Garry Kasparov
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• I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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• Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  

  Mark Twain
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• I had another idea of getting a traveling medicine wagon with a dropdown side and traveling around England. That might sound crazy to you, but over there it's so rural you can do it. Just drop down the side and play through big battery amps and mixers and it can all be as temporary or as permanent as I want it to be.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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• It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

  

  John Hawkes
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• I remember doing stand-up at an open mic a long time ago, and the MC was like, 'Who's next?' I said, 'Marietta Sirleaf,' and he was like, 'What?' And I was like, 'Ugh, okay, just Retta.' It stuck with me ever since.

  

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