Emily Raboteau Quotes
That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.
Quotes to Explore
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
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It's not hard to be a woman in comedy as long as you're also a writer. You have to create your opportunity.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.
