Tarana Burke Quotes

At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish I would have known that you don't have to sacrifice everything for a cause. And that self-care and self-preservation is also a tool that is necessary to do the work.

Tarana Burke

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WorkSacrificeMeStartWishYou

I like watching Tom Brady, not just because he's handsome - I get handsome; I understand handsome - but he's a fine leader, he's a great quarterback, and I like the team. I'm not going to apologize for that.

Jennifer Garner

LeaderGreatTeamHandsomeWatching

'Teenage Wildlife' is just epic. It's, like, five or six minutes long, and it kind of crescendos and builds into this insane vocal of Bowie wailing. I think I would pay $5,000 dollars to see footage of that recording session.

Anders Holm

ThinkLongKindWildlifePaySee

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

Andrae Crouch

WalkDayWritingHouseIntentionGo

With things like Facebook, it's really easy to think that you know someone that you really don't.

Megan M. Duffy

ThinkSomeoneEasyYouKnowThings

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

Meghan Daum

GoodSayingCareYouGood Fortune

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

John Henry Newman

LifeChangeLivePerfectChanged

Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.

John Kricfalusi

YearsGoneBeenStillEvenHe

I would say my poise comes from my faith.

Tua Tagovailoa

FaithSayPoiseWould

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

Mira Nair

New YorkYouFeelingNewGivePost

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

Dick York

TongueTeethEvidenceSideBiteSet

From Kevyn Aucoin, I learned about the power of eyebrows. He was an eyebrow freak, and rightly so because there's nothing in your face that changes you more. You can quite visibly lift your eye with a higher-placed eyebrow, or if you thicken or thin it.

Paulina Porizkova

PowerEyeFaceYouLiftNothing

My dad is my support, and he is the best support that I could ever have.

Thora Birch

BestSupportHeEverCouldDad

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