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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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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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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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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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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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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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Novel writing wrecks homes.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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My life was as crammed with strenuous work and highly interesting experiences alike.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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You can now share your story anonymously much more easily than you could earlier and you can watch people have conversations about it. And when people come out and say negative things about you, there will be other people who have had similar experiences or who know people who have had similar experiences who will defend you.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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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.
