Cynthia Addai-Robinson Quotes
The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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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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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.
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I can’t make this decision for you…this one’s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s all I can do.
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The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.
