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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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about going at it in a long roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong.
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The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.
