Erol Alkan Quotes

I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.

Erol Alkan

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• Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

  

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• Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

  

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• My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  

  Edith Hamilton
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• What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

  

  Kate Bush
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• Women will use a glycolic acid cleanser, then an AHA/BHA serum, then a retinol night cream and sure, they have glowing skin, but that's the equivalent of a mini-peel each night. Go easy on your skin! Get good advice! We have finite layers!

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

  

  Laura Marling
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• I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• When asked if he gets advice from other musicians, quoted in **Heroes & Villains: Jerry Cantrell. Louder Sound (July 16, 2014).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Advice

• Moms get their fair share of conflicting advice, with a heaping of unsolicited advice. Parents debate the pros/cons of different types of disposable diapers, whether the supposed carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson baby products hurt their kids who used it, which method of sleep training to use.

  

  Christine Tsai
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• What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

  

  Paul Wellstone
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• Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.

  

  Matthew Lawrence
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• You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Positive
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• When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.

  

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• Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

  

  Emma Thompson
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• If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

  

  Ira Glass
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• When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

  

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• I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Advice
  • Belief
  • Experiences