Charissa Thompson (Charissa Jean Thompson) Quotes
In the very early stages of working in sports, I was sick of being referred to as "the Barbie doll" because I had long, blond, fake hair. So I went and bought a boxed hair color, dyed my hair black, and put on glasses. And I looked ridiculous. I looked like a completely different person. I was trying to get away from the stereotype but what I realized in doing that is that what I say and how I conduct myself in what I do will speak for itself, and I don't need to apologize for being a woman in that space.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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We have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. We have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it.
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As we look back, it seems like willful blindness. The abandonment of the radical economic foundation of the women's and civil-rights movements by the conflation of causes that came to be called political correctness successfully retrained generation of activists in the politics of image, not action.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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I'm a fan of LeBron James. I'm not really a team fan; I'm just a fan of one player.
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There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.
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There is not a need to know my friend’s caste and religion in order to remain friends with them; rather they are my family members who I got from different mothers.
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There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.
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In the very early stages of working in sports, I was sick of being referred to as "the Barbie doll" because I had long, blond, fake hair. So I went and bought a boxed hair color, dyed my hair black, and put on glasses. And I looked ridiculous. I looked like a completely different person. I was trying to get away from the stereotype but what I realized in doing that is that what I say and how I conduct myself in what I do will speak for itself, and I don't need to apologize for being a woman in that space.
