Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Quotes

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

Jennifer Chiaverini

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

John Dewey

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It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.

Mattie Stepanek

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I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

Aneel Bhusri

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We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Matt Blunt

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For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.

Deborah Harkness

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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Bobby Jindal

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Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level!

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When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles.

Paz de la Huerta

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It was never someplace that I said, 'In my career, I must work at Disney.'

Rich Moore

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As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation.

Lynn Nottage

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I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Kyra Sedgwick

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