Kathy Wakile Quotes
Sometimes I see really skinny girls. They may look great, but...they're not happy. Have a cupcake.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
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I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.
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That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
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Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.
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I've seen with my own eyes what the effects of Israeli neuroscience research is. It was in my congressional district in Philadelphia that ReWalk, the Israeli company that makes the exoskeleton suit that enables paraplegics to walk, carried out their trials.
Chaka Fattah -
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
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I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.
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This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
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Sometimes I see really skinny girls. They may look great, but...they're not happy. Have a cupcake.
