Bonnie McFarlane Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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Businesses, the State, and the third sector should join forces for a fairer society around the theme of diversity and inclusion in the supply chain, diverse suppliers in general, and work and procurement with women in particular.
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
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I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.
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I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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As you get older, you become more unapologetic about how you really are, how you feel about things, and you really say it out loud.
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If you enjoy shaming people, I suggest dentistry as a profession.