Emily Matchar Quotes
In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.
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Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.
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Being an online platform, we ran into challenges with Cuba's lack of Internet accessibility. We were able to work around that by creating a program unique to Cuba where many local hosts are working with hosting partners who have Internet access and can help them manage their Airbnb requests and bookings.
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In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
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The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.
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In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.
