Denise Dresser Quotes

In Latin America, many people live with outstretched hands. Throughout the hemisphere, paternalistic governments accustom people to receiving just enough to survive instead of participating in society.

Denise Dresser

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LivePeopleSocietySurviveAmerica

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

John Hartford

TimeYouSituationImportantExist

I'm not a dirty fighter. Everybody knows that.

Andre Ward

DirtyFighterKnowsEverybody

It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.

Anna Kendrick

DoorEnjoyMoreNeverSeeI See

While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.

Amitava Kumar

HelpSimplifyThingsBooksSelf-Help

As we've seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities - and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

Michelle Obama

WomenOpportunityTimeCreatingOut

Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

SufferingAmbitionPersonPersonal

I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendary.

Jose Canseco

GrowthBelieveAthleteEveryoneJust

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.

Chubby Checker

BusinessBlessingMeThoughtFame

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Phil Donahue

PeopleKidGotWhoDivorcedWere

I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.

Susan Ford

LovePeopleDownPersonalSheSee

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

Peter Jackson

FatherWarMeWorldNewPrincipal

I think the world is becoming a place where younger and younger people can do great things, and I just hope I can inspire other young people to do the same.

Shawn Mendes

HopeGreatPeopleWorldThinkI Can

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