Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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If you look at a copy of EO 11110, you will find that it does not order the issuance of Silver Certificates. It orders an amendment to EO 10289... Those functions did not include the power to issue Silver Certificates.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
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Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.
