Ursula Burns Quotes
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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I'm not a party person.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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I come to fight because I love to fight. It's my life.
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I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
