Yolanda Hadid Quotes
I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.
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My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
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I'm probably an overcompensating introvert. I live in Hollywood, but I don't go to parties where I have to work the room. I could do that, but I don't want to... I try and stay the same and live a fairly normal life.
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I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.
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I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.
