Clemantine Wamariya Quotes
Being kind to myself helped me deal with people who thought less of me and thought they were better than me.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
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My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.
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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.
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The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.
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Images of innocence charge him go on But the decadence of destiny is looking for a pawn To a nightmare of knowledge he opens up the gate And a blinding revelation is laid upon his plate That beneath the greatest love is a hurricane of hate And God help the critic of the dawn.
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Being kind to myself helped me deal with people who thought less of me and thought they were better than me.
