Omara Portuondo Quotes
We had longed for this success for many years, ... But better late than never.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
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There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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We had longed for this success for many years, ... But better late than never.
