Xochi Birch Quotes
My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.
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I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
Jaclyn Smith
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
Barry Hannah
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
Pat Metheny
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
Nancy Roman
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
Nancy Lublin
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
Rachel Ward
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
Halima Aden
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Everything I make starts very personally.
Baz Luhrmann
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
Tabatha Coffey
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Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
Ina Garten
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The best part about being a matchmaker is you are getting credits in heaven, as I really believe I work for God. The worst part is that matchmakers can often fix everyone up, all the way to the altar, but cannot find love themselves, so it is bittersweet.
Patti Stanger
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It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
Louis Freeh
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A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.
Raghuram Rajan
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Somewhere on the other side of this wide nightand the distance between us, I am thinking of you.The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
Carol Ann Duffy
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My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
Christine Flores
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My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.
Xochi Birch