Lesley Nicol Quotes
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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India is my kid sister.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
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You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
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Fans are awesome.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
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Solar energy is bound to be in our future. There's a kind of inevitability about it.
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If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company.
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I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a result. I think a lot of improvisers, you'll see them some nights and they just stink, and they go, "Well, we're just improvising." Like that's a license to have a shitty night!
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He was the prototype for what we're all looking for. He represented the jockey colony with so much dignity and class. He was always politically correct and always said the right things.
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I think that racism has gotten more subtle, and it's not even racism anymore: it's placism. Like where you live or whether you went to community college or Harvard, and it exists within the race.
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I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.
