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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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.
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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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I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.
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What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
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I grew up always thinking that fighting for justice was our obligation, whether that's giving your voice to something, serving as a verbal advocate for someone, or physically being in spaces or occupying space to make and create change.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
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Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole.
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In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.
