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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People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.
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I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will.
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I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.
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I thought his rookie year was his most amazing year. For him to master two positions, grow with the speed of the league and to do it from both inside and outside positions and have success was nothing short of amazing. The second year he took the normal progression from year one to year two. That's when the greatest growth occurs, especially for linemen, and he took off.
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Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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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.
