Eileen Ford Quotes
The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.
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Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.
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When we launched WeWork back in 2010, we saw our opportunity to build community by bringing people together.
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Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.
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The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.
