Gabourey Sidibe Quotes
I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
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You want hard workers. You'd be surprised how many people tell me, 'I don't need to work hard. I'm smart.' Really?
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It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.
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I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.
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I never understood when people would say, 'I would die for my child,' but you become so selfless.
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I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.
