Joyce Giraud Quotes

In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.

Joyce Giraud

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I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

Jidenna

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I wanted to be a librarian.

Amy Klobuchar

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People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Stuart Scott

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I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.

Roger Spottiswoode

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What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'

Michael Moore

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China has always been very hospitable, but we can choose who enters our house. We could not allow any companies to enter China and make money while hurting the country.

Lu Wei

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If I train hard and have a great training camp, and I'm as prepared as I can be, I can take any heavyweight in the world.

Joseph Parker

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I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

Don Nelson

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When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Colin Firth

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I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.

Bret Stephens

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If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.

Brad Henry

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