Rachel Platten Quotes

I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

Rachel Platten

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• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

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• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
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• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
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• Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

  

  Imogen Heap
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• The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Giving
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• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
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• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
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• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
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• Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
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• When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Want
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• Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Reputation
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• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
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• It's the same game, I don't care where you are playing, Minnesota, Kansas City or New York, it's the same game.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Game
  • City

• Relationships with the media are really important. The media has a more important voice today than it has ever had. We don't advertise. We only have one marketing vehicle, which is editorial, and our ability to get our message out and communicate it effectively.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Important
  • Today
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• Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

  

  Eric Roberts
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • College

• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  

  Len Wein
  • School
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• I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Science
  • Political
  • College