Folorunsho Alakija Quotes
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Beauty is not just physical.
Halle Berry -
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
Speed can't always get you wickets.
Kapil Dev -
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
Dan Pink -
The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.
Jacob deGrom -
The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
Gail Collins
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
Wale -
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar -
Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow -
You've got to change with the public's taste.
Nat King Cole -
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
Felix Baumgartner -
Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
Edie Falco
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On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
J. Michael Straczynski -
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
Jack Welch -
I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
Bea Arthur -
I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.
J. D. Salinger -
Beauty will snatch us by the heart and love us until we are raw with understanding.
Aberjhani
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The best part about playing a mom is that people hug moms. I get hugs all the time. It really makes hard days a lot easier, and easy days are downright joyous.
Kim Rhodes -
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria -
I have found that people who really want to work at 'Saturday Night Live' and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny - but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it's kind of nice in that way - there's a lot of people who say, 'I just always wanted to do this, and now I'm doing it.'
John Mulaney -
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
Paul Weyrich -
Human reason is by nature architectonic.
Immanuel Kant -
I once dared to dream and if I could succeed, then so can you!
Folorunsho Alakija