Kiana Tom Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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Children are liable to expect more from life than their parents, and faced with adversity their reaction is more violent. They go farther, much farther than their parents, and, thereafter, their parents are unable to protect them.
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If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing.
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I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.
