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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
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Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.
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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.
