Laurie Helgoe Quotes
When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.
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My mother, actually, is a therapist.
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Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.
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We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.
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I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.
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We believe in the wisdom of the front lines.
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When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.
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Defenders see things way different than blockers.
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Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way.
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People that want to be in the tabloids will get into the tabloids. I just stay home and don't go out much. My personality is not an introvert, but that's how I am as far as going out to parties. I just stay in my house and hang out with friends.
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I was really obsessed with dieting.
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I would admit I'm an introvert. I don't know why introverts have to apologize.
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A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
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After my final semester at Yale in December of 2013, I made a scary choice. Instead of looking for work - feeling over-read and underweight - that for a few months I would go wherever the wind carried me. I would become a student of the world, and I would eat.
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
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When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
