Nita Lowey Quotes
What was so important to my development was his absolute conviction that people wanted a hand up, not a handout.
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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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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
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When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
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Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
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It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
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People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.
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In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.
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In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!
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I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.
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What was so important to my development was his absolute conviction that people wanted a hand up, not a handout.
