Constance Baker Motley Quotes
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
Octavia Spencer -
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga -
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
Fabiola Gianotti -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
Vince McMahon -
I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
Talia Balsam
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
Fatema Mernissi -
There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
Zachary Levi -
Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
Dana Perino -
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
Fran Drescher -
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison -
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
A. S. Byatt
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
Lana Del Rey -
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
Sally Ride -
When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
Hampton Sides -
I've always wanted to be a singer.
Zara Larsson -
You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
Randi Weingarten
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
Rainn Wilson -
Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.
Maureen Chiquet -
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.
William C. Somerville -
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
James Earl Jones -
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
Constance Baker Motley