Page McConnell Quotes
You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I'm totally a geek.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.
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My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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I genuinely wanted to be an inspiration to other people and inspire people and be a role model.
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The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
