Gabourey Sidibe Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I always played to win.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.
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Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
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I like who I am. I'm different. I work really hard just to be where I am, and I know I'm not gonna stop doing that.
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If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
