Aja Naomi King Quotes
It gets a little crazy at Disneyland. It's a little bit more hardcore then people think.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.
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I've always been someone who has been very driven. I think my circumstances, how I grew up, hard work and work ethic are absolutely vital to any success that people might have, regardless of what they might be doing.
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I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.
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Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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It gets a little crazy at Disneyland. It's a little bit more hardcore then people think.
