Adrienne Bailon Quotes
A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.
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In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.
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I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.
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Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.
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I grew up hearing, 'You're pretty for a black girl,' 'You speak well for a black girl...' I was really bookish. I was reading all of the time. I had big glasses.
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
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A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.
