Malin Akerman Quotes
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I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
