Retta (Marietta Sangai Sirleaf) Quotes
I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then I moved to L.A., and if you're not known, it's hard to get stage time. So you start out doing what they call 'bringers' - you have to bring five people if you wanna get on stage. It was a lot of hustle, a learning curve.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
Camille Paglia
I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
G-Eazy
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
Natalie Portman
I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
Sally Pearson
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
J. R. Moehringer
When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
Abraham Verghese
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
Adam Grant
I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
Rachael Harris
I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
Wanda Sykes
My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
Naveen Jain