Geri Jewell Quotes
You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.
 
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	It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.   
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	Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.   
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	It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.   
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	At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.   
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	Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.   
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	On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'   
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	If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.   
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	I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.   
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	We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.   
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	Kate Moss has great style.   
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	I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.   
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	I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.   
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	On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.   
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	I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.   
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	The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.   
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	As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.   
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	You discover yourself through the research of your work.   
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	I had a chance to do 'Ant-Man' in 2011.   
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	Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.   
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	As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."   
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	When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.   
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	Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.   
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	I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.   
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	You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					