Rima Fakih Quotes

I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

Rima Fakih

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PeopleMeLookingUnderstandUpLot

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Jessica Valenti

BookProfessionalismBelievingRun

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

Andrew Forrest

SlaveryWorldSomeoneYouCannot

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

John McEnroe

FocusYouLoseNeverAlwaysIntense

There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

Matthew Perry

LifeJobMeRestMy LifeDoors

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Jeanne Calment

LifeSmileLongExplainLong Life

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Amanda Harlech

FearPeopleThinkSayWantMost

I eat a lot of takeaways.

Amir Khan

EatLot

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

Stephen Daldry

GreatTimeJobLiteratureYouSpend

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

Steven Pinker

BestBookThinkEnlightenmentRise

When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve.

Tracy Chapman

LiveExperiencePeopleYouPictures

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

Travis Beacham

PeopleIdeasYouOpenOwnYour

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Rita Moreno

HomeHeavenNewsWatchingComing

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