Floor Jansen Quotes
People think that when they come up to me, screaming things into my ear, that I will respond according to what they want. I'll turn around and smile and take the photo. But I'm not somebody's marionette.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
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The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.
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People think that when they come up to me, screaming things into my ear, that I will respond according to what they want. I'll turn around and smile and take the photo. But I'm not somebody's marionette.
