Nelly Furtado Quotes
It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.
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I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'
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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
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I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.
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It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.
