Ariel Rechtshaid Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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I get homesick.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Why is the measure of love... loss? pg.9
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
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I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.
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Ibiza is very close to my heart.
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I have a hard time repeating myself.
