Jill Soloway Quotes

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

Jill Soloway

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PeopleWantAlwaysWhereGetBeen

Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

Jen Sincero

WeekYouScaryWhateverBigOff

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

Melanie Griffith

LifeWrinklesFeelNowMoreInside

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Maurice Strong

Make A DifferenceYouAcceptWill

By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure.

Matthew Walker

SleepStrongPressureBuildUp

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Althea Gibson

QueenHandsLongWayBusGoing

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

Rosario Dawson

LoveRomanticMeThinkFeelingWhy

Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.

Roisin Murphy

MusicMeLifestyleFantasticGiven

I don't know who my dad is.

Mary Gauthier

KnowWhoDad

I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.

Mary J. Blige

SelfFeelLookWantWayHatred

I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration.

Michelle Alexander

EducationPowerKingMindBelieve

I really don't want to live in a world where the U.N. will not be relevant, will not be seen as the enterprise we turn to when we have a problem.

Miroslav Lajcak

LiveWorldProblemWantWillTurn

The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually, 'That's right.' Before you convince them to see what you're trying to accomplish, you have to say the things to them that will get them to say, 'That's right.'

Christopher Voss

WordsNegotiationYouAccomplishSay

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