Lena Waithe Quotes
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
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You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Shah Jahan, the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, commissioned the building of the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his beloved wife.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
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And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest hopes, protector of one's deepest privacies. It was half insane with its noise, violence, and decay, but it gave one the tender security of fulfillment.
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I'm an older generation.
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I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.
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The overall feckless strategy against ISIS in Syria and Iraq enabled the Islamist organization to expand its domain and drive out more religious minorities.
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I'm queen of mentorship.
