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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The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
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I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.
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I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.
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Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
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It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.
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Sometimes I see really skinny girls. They may look great, but...they're not happy. Have a cupcake.
