Paloma Elsesser Quotes
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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I did not know that you had to learn makeup. I just thought you went, 'Oh, I'm gonna put on some makeup.'
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
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I can do a really good animal impression! I'm great at ducks, cats, dogs, and occasionally dolphins.
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I think a lot of Africans in my generation, and especially those of us who have spent time overseas before coming back, are quite comfortable moving between the two worlds, though always with a lens of, 'What can we do to help our countries or regions?'
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Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
