Tasha Smith Quotes
President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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I literally can't get anywhere now without the map on my phone. I used to use an A-Z when I first came to London, and now I really struggle because there's no dot to show where I am. And I think that part of my brain doesn't work any more.
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People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical, when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
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President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.
