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thinking two size
I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two. Carre Otis
thinking media giving
Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.' Carol Roth
thinking self starting-out
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things. Carol Leifer
thinking use language
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. Carol Shields
thinking long people
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
thinking giving people
I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope. Carol Moseley Braun
thinking protection incumbency
I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.
thinking issues giving
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
thinking rights color
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
selfish maturity years
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
self investing juan
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone. Carlos Castaneda
self pitfalls devotion
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. Agnes Martin
self unhappy what-you-love
Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating. Alan Sugar
selfish rose people
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns. Alan Keyes
selfish description relation
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
self rivers mountain
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. Charlotte Bronte
self giving soul
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
selfish laughing soul
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
decision definitely expect
We have to go with the decision that's been made and they're going to give him a shot. I definitely want to get back out there and do what they expect me to do. Paul Thompson
decision elections free further harm intention judged measures population taken taking targeted undertake
We have no intention of taking any measures that would harm the population of Belarus if a decision is taken to undertake further restrictive measures. Those measures would be targeted on those who are deemed to be responsible for elections which have been judged not to be free and fair.
decisions staff together
We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk. Bruce Bochy
decisions few holes meetings scheduling walking
We have some big decisions walking into our scheduling meetings with as few holes as we have. Dawn Ostroff
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We have some big decisions on our plate.
decisions four last poor
When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.
decision letter members subtle threats
We want our members to be able to make a decision without being intimidated. Nothing in the letter (from Bass) is illegal, but there are subtle threats in there.
decisions education fewer knows level local people solutions
We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children, Spencer Abraham
decision world citizens
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world. Aaron Sorkin