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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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.
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Our audience isn't One Direction, Katy Perry, Rihanna fans.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
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The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.
