Arlene Croce Quotes
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
Jackson Rathbone -
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar -
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams -
I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
Nadia Comaneci
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
Naftali Bennett -
I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
Candice Olson -
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Nancy Friday -
I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
Gail Devers -
Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
W. Bruce Cameron
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Baruch Spinoza -
Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
Gail Parent -
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.
Anton Chekhov -
I like all of the books I work on to be ones you can pick up without knowing the entire history of the character, because then, not only can you enjoy it as is, but it encourages you to look into the history of that character and their world.
Kate Leth -
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Charles Lamb -
Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
Daniel Kaluuya
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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
Chris Ofili -
As long as you put me out on the court, I was gonna play hard.
Brandon Jennings -
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
Mara Brock Akil -
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.
Arlene Croce