Patricia Velasquez Quotes
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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History is not hatred.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap videos at the time.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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I'm not going to change the way I play.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
