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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Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.
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Of course, some people call me one of the most well-networked people in the world, but I am a very unsocial person - I never go to a cocktail party; I am never seen at a charity event. I have one exception: I'm a member of the board for one of the big European music festivals, so I participate, with pleasure, in concerts.
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Sometimes I see really skinny girls. They may look great, but...they're not happy. Have a cupcake.
