George Takei Quotes
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold
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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
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The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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He climbs highest who helps another up.
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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
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Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.
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Grief never mended no broken bones.
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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.
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In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
