Rachel Platten Quotes
I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.Rachel Platten
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick deWitt -
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
Ian Williams Battles -
When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
Olga Kurylenko -
Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
Zendaya -
As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
Naveen Jain
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
Randall Kennedy -
Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
Ian MacKaye -
I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
Rafael Palmeiro -
You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
Laila Ali -
Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
Rachel Miner -
Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
Hal Roach
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
Yul Vazquez -
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
T. J. Miller -
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan -
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
Yahoo Serious
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
Rachel Kushner -
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
Oscar Wilde -
If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
Andrew Solomon -
I had always had a dream to open up a boutique of some sort.
Joanna Gaines -
When I crashed my BMW and managed to walk away pretty much unscathed, it was a turning point. I'd been living the life, and when people see photos of the car wreck, they can't believe I got away with it. It was like a fog had lifted. I stopped drinking a bottle of Tequila before grabbing my car keys. It was time to wise-up and get a haircut.
Johnny Marr The Smiths -
I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
Rachel Platten