Carrie Jones Quotes
You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
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I remember hearing Will Smith, back when he was just a rapper, saying, 'When all the other rap stars are in bed, I'm practicing my rapping.' I try to be like that. There is always something to improve.
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I'm from Ghana, in West Africa, and all the women in Ghana absolutely love shea butter. We use it for everything, head to toe. I've used it all my life.
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I realized that I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. It's a trip more wonderful than I could have imagined.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
