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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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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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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When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.
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Even when things are stable, that's not easy to work in Africa because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.
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I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.
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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.
