Rachel Ticotin Quotes
My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I always played to win.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
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They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.
