Manolo Blahnik Quotes
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I'm very pessimistic.
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For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
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Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.
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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
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Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
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If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
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The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.
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My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
