Ai-jen Poo Quotes
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
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Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.
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I haven't let anybody take me off my path or deter me in any way. It's about seeing an opportunity and taking it.
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Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.
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No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.
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The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.
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Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.
