Zainab Salbi Quotes
I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I don't really go out at all.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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I can paint in jail.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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Pop music should be about young people.
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I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
