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Philomena Kwao Quotes

Sometimes you never realise how much of an effect you're having on people until you're told, and the fan mail I receive has made me very aware of the positive effects I have on other people.

Philomena Kwao

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Positive People Me You Sometimes

In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

Jill Lepore

Work College Employees New Dying

If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.

John Oates

Music Friends Doubt Whether

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Simon Sinek

People Negative Expectations Better

My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.

Luis Fonsi

Touch Pop Genre Ballad

No one else in my family works in the fashion industry.

Liu Wen

Family Fashion Industry Else Works

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

Judith Rossner

Mother

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

Diana Rigg

Brother Me Jealous Remember Nice

I don't consider myself a 'radical.' Radical in American society has, I think, become this buzzword that makes a lot of ideas and discussions seem foreign or new to people - whether for or against them. Is it radical to seek justice? Is it radical to be rescued by love? Is it subversive to be sweet?

Chelsea Manning

Love Justice Myself Love Is Ideas

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

Bonnie Bedelia

Love Good Character Great Time Fun

I write what's given me to write.

Philip Levine

Me Write Given I Write

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.