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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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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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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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
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The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.
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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.
