Gerald Chertavian Quotes

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

Gerald Chertavian

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The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

Jessica Williams

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I learned long ago, back with 'Lover Revealed,' that my job is to sit at the computer, shut up and type. Otherwise? The pictures and the voices go away!

Jessica Bird

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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo

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If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

Andrew J. Bernstein

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Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.

Michael Weatherly

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In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

Loretta Young

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The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won't jump on the UPS guy, never rolls in gross things, eats only the appropriate food at the right time, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist.

Jon Katz

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My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.

Draymond Green

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Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

Peter Forsberg

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I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

Tim Daly

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Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

Kenneth Frazier

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You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Henry Rollins

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