Essence Atkins Quotes

What online dating did was offer me the opportunity to go out with a bunch of different people from different industries; I really didn't want to limit myself with people who are in the entertainment industry.

Essence Atkins

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OpportunityMyselfDatingPeopleMe

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

Jo Brand

JobMeProblemsTryListenOut

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

John Burroughs

LiveBusinessMoneyMenFightCity

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

Jean Gabin

SuccessDoorBackGetUnderstood

Neither my MFA from Yale School of Drama nor my BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University make me any different from other actors in film, television, or theatre.

Amanda Warren

SchoolNew YorkMeTheatreDrama

You can tell when you're in a hit.

Steve Guttenberg

YouTellHit

The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people.

Sukarno

PeopleRevolutionDefense

I wasn't star struck, but you know you're in the game when you're eye-to-eye with Nicki Minaj. It means you made it.

Slim Jimmy

GameYouKnowStarMadeMeans

It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag.

RuPaul

RestRememberYouBornImportant

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.

Michelle Alexander

PoliceSilencePracticeRewardAdmit

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Mitch Albom

MindInterestingYouWriteMemoir

I don't think I win most interviews. For instance, with Fidel Castro, I only spoke with him one minute and three seconds. But I think he won because I couldn't get anything from him. With the former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, it happened exactly the same thing.

Jorge Ramos

WinThinkThreePresidentAnything

I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!

Douglas Booth

Growing UpSlowLovedGrowingDays

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