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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It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
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I think I'm one of the only guys here - I mean, we have so much great talent here, but I can do anything. I can literally do anything. That's not me being like, 'Oh I'm so great.' I'm just like, 'I know what I'm doing.'
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Like many men, I can never find anything that I’m looking for, even when I’m actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence.
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There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.
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It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and "Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now," and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument.
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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.
