Alicia Machado Quotes
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed.
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I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.
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Let's create, not destroy. Let's believe and not doubt.
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I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
