Ellen Raskin Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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The truth, as the light, makes blind.
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Fairy tales-simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?
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In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.
