Ruben Blades Quotes

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

Ruben Blades

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FatherMotherSchoolRealityNever

Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicPeopleHeadphonesLoversBuy

I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Golf taught me a great deal. I grew up surrounded by people who were professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers. Around them, I learned how to behave, speak, eat, dress. I had nothing at home. The club was my home.

Angel Cabrera

HomeGreatDressPeopleMeBetter

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play.

John Van Hamersveld

LifeMusicSportsPoliticsFashion

I love acting and really think that's what I want to do. It's weird seeing myself up there, but I'm used to it now. But otherwise, I have backups. Doctor, lawyer.

Sofia Vassilieva

LoveMyselfDoctorLawyerThinkNow

For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.

Mary Daly

ChangeBlackChurchTryingPerson

Dancers are made, not born.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

BornDancersMade

We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

WorkGoodLiveGood WorkEnvironment

When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.

Constance Wu

MyselfNewspaperPublishedVirginia

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.

Austan Goolsbee

ChallengesRiseCountryRunSystem

I'm literally obsessed with Christmas, and it's been my dream ever since I was a little girl to make a Christmas album.

Ally Brooke

GirlDreamChristmasLittleBeen

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Seth Godin

FearSmartOvercomingPersonAware

I am Christian, and I was very vocal about that at first until people started using it against me. Now I've learned to keep it to myself. I don't think it has anything to do with my job or how present myself. I feel like it got really twisted.

Selena Gomez

MyselfJobI AmPeopleMeThink

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