Maria Cornejo Quotes
As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.Maria Cornejo
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
Larry Wilmore -
I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
Zoe Kravitz -
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson -
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Dan Hill -
For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
Yair Lapid -
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
Indira Gandhi -
One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
Faith Ford -
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner -
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
Walt Mossberg
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
Carly Fiorina -
It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk -
You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
Sam Heughan -
My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
Dan Hill -
I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.
Beanie Sigel -
Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
Barton Gellman
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
Ina May Gaskin -
He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.
Bill Scott -
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
Lady Gregory -
Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.
Mary Quant -
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
Yann Martel -
As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.
Maria Cornejo