Alicia Machado Quotes
If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.
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Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
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We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.
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I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
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The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
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I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I'm always afraid I didn't get those 10 seconds.
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There's a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal's in Dundalk, they start thinking, 'Ireland must be good if they're investing there', and by extension, 'Dundalk must be good, so let's have a look at it.'
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If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
