Normani Kordei Hamilton (Normani) Quotes
It is a great day anytime I can bring a smile to a girl or boy, knowing that I am helping to inspire them to always dream big.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
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That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
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I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.
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The point is, is that the aim of our work must be not to just have a few do well, but to have everybody have a chance, everybody who is willing to work for it have the ability to dream big and then reach those dreams.
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If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
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I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance and variety we have in the world, but at our essence, we are all the same, we all want the same things: to live well, pursue our dreams, and be happy.
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I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
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Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
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To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.
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I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.
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It is a great day anytime I can bring a smile to a girl or boy, knowing that I am helping to inspire them to always dream big.
