Emily Haines Quotes
When I happen to read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, it comes off as a little smug or something.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.
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When I happen to read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, it comes off as a little smug or something.
