You Quotes
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
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Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
