Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Quotes
The things that are going to actually help you or me stay healthy are not necessarily the things that happen inside a doctor's office. They're the things that allow us to choose healthy lifestyles on a day-by-day basis.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
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I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.
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I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
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People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
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The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
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Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
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Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
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Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
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The things that are going to actually help you or me stay healthy are not necessarily the things that happen inside a doctor's office. They're the things that allow us to choose healthy lifestyles on a day-by-day basis.
