Petra Collins Quotes

I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being 'female' meant I couldn't be that - I couldn't be angry, loud, sullen. Being sad meant I was weak.

Petra Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 21, 1992

Topics

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I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.

Joe Manganiello

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We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Jennifer Saunders

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When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part.

Michael Hayden

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I started Chipotle with the idea to create an experience that's fast - and not fast food.

Steve Ells

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I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Robert Browning

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I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

Mary Gordon

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When you're a choreographer and you put so much into a routine that's emotionally driven, those are like my ideas and my little babies that I have here and then I put them out there and they're there to be judged and looked at. When it's all over, it's just such a relief.

Derek Hough

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I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.

Derek Jeter

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I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.

Brie Larson

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I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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