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Build a life that radiates internal happiness, not merely an external façade. – Aloo Denish Obiero	added by Aloo-Denish 11 days ago
Being found out is the scariest thing you can hope, because we all have a facade, and the truth be known to all of ‘em. I’m not some big star. I’m just me. – Neil Diamond	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There has never been a more necessary time for law enforcement officers who reveal misconduct to be protected. By rising to uphold our Nation's values, ethical law enforcement officers choose a conflict for which no education, experience, or training can prepare them. They discover their communities breached and their opponent already beyond their gates. They confront criminals, intimidators, and tyrants that disguise themselves wearing the same badge they hold so dear. They advance against others who would otherwise seek to abuse the public, control the narrative, investigate themselves or obscure the truth beneath a facade of pursuing the greater good. Afterward, they often find themselves cast out, lost, and silenced permanently from their profession for doing nothing more than what we asked of them: Policing. – Austin Handle	added by anonymous 1 year ago
Some put on a strong facade but eventually broke down. Some got frustrated and upset. Many of them were ashamed and embarrassed, it was often difficult testimony to listen to. But, you know what ? As difficult as it was for all of us to hear, it was far worse for them to experience and relive. – Nadia Shihata	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The defendant's fraudulent scheme made her a billionaire. The scheme brought her fame, it brought her honor, and it brought her adoration, she had become, as she sought, one of the most celebrated CEOs in Silicon Valley and the world, but under the facade of Theranos' success, there were significant problems brewing. – Robert Leach	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I saw cracks in the stucco facade. I saw deterioration of the concrete balconies. – Jason Borden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Then came Rio Olympics. United States ' Missy Franklin had never been through anything like Rio Olympics before. There were plenty of tears, even as United States ' Missy Franklin tried to maintain United States ' Missy Franklin smiling, upbeat facade. It was brutal, United States ' Missy Franklin recalled. You are literally on the biggest stage in the world and falling short of every single goal youve set for yourself. You truly feel like youre embarrassing yourself. Yet, that was when United States ' Missy Franklin found something deep inside, something United States ' Missy Franklin always hoped was there but wouldnt really know until she went through such a trying ordeal. Its really easy to inspire people in success and when youre doing well. Its really hard to inspire people when youre failing, when youre falling on your butt, now I have to show up and be that person I always said I wanted to be in a situation like this. While this has been a solitary journey in many ways, Franklins husband has helped greatly in easing the transition from competitive swimming. When his wife-to-be was contemplating whether to have another surgery, he pointed out that there were far more important things still to come, that had nothing to do with being a star athlete. Theres always going to be a part of me thats still working through it, still reflecting and seeing what else I can take away from it. – United States	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
To have secrets and to have to live keeping those secrets from people, i've certainly had my struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction, mental health, and I know what it's like to have to put up a facade and have an external experience not match the internal experience. I felt like that was my strongest asset in trying to articulate what the guy's going through. – Eric Dane	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The building is significant architecturally for its intact Renaissance Revival facade that stretches around a corner site and for its steel skeleton-frame construction, features that exemplify the stylistic character and technological advances in skyscraper architecture at the time it was built. – Landmarks Preservation Commission	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I'm crying because you guys don't know the truth, you guys are believing some fucking façade that our parents are saying. These are all fucking lies for money. – Azriel Clary	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The building had no elevator, The Associated Press reported, citing city records. Fire escapes were visible on the facade of the building. The fire department responded to emergency calls within three minutes. Witnesses described the scene of the fire and the panic from the building's tenants. Xanral Collins, Xanral Collins, told the New York Post Xanral Collins saw a father running toward the building, but was unable to enter. I saw Xanral Collins screaming,' My babies are dead ! My babies are dead !' Xanral Collins said. Jamal Flicker, Jamal Flicker told the New York Post Jamal Flicker heard screams for help. The smoke was crazy, people screaming,' Get out ! Jamal Flicker said. I heard a woman yelling,' We're trapped, help !' Neighborhood resident Robert Gonzalez, who has a friend who lives in the building, told the Associated Press she got out on a fire escape as another resident fled with five children. When I got here, she was crying, Robert Gonzalez said. Kwabena Mensah told the Daily News Kwabena Mensah feared Kwabena Mensah son, Kwabena Mensah, Kwabena Mensah, was one of the victims of the devastating fire. Kwabena Mensah came home from the Army about a week ago for the holidays, Kwabena Mensah said. Kwabena Mensah said Kwabena Mensah son’s roommate saw Kwabena Mensah before the fire broke out in the building. Kwabena Mensah was telling the roommate to not come out of the apartment because there was smoke. But when they rescued everyone from the windows, we couldn't find Kwabena Mensah. I went to four hospitals, I can't find Kwabena Mensah. – Kwabena Mensah	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I always look forward to introducing him to my friends, especially the ones with preconceived notions, because they meet a man with natural charm and no facade. In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. My friends walk away with a glimpse of all that he is and all that he means to me -- of the strong, protective, kind, endearing man I am so proud to call my father. – Marla Maples	Found on CNN 6 years ago
He did so with such intelligence and such an elevated vocabulary that I was completely duped by the whole facade, many people see him as the victim and me as the perpetrator. – Mary Beth Haglin	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Authorities genuinely forgot that the facade was here, they also forgot to secure the spot properly. – Geoffroy Coomans De Brachene	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
That is just a facade, for us nothing is repaired. – Yolanda Sanchez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Venezuela is really a dictatorship, we have a facade of democracy. – Julieta Lopez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Behind the facade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course. – International Energy Agency	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
On the face of it, the oil price appears to be stabilizing. What a precarious balance it is, however, behind the façade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course, and it might be overly optimistic to expect it to proceed smoothly. – The IEA	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
On the face of it, the oil price appears to be stabilising. What a precarious balance it is, however, behind the façade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course, and it might be overly optimistic to expect it to proceed smoothly. – The IEA	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. – Douglas Hostadter	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you. – Swordfish	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Build a life that radiates internal happiness, not merely an external façade.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
11 days ago

Being found out is the scariest thing you can hope, because we all have a facade, and the truth be known to all of ‘em. I’m not some big star. I’m just me.

– Neil Diamond

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There has never been a more necessary time for law enforcement officers who reveal misconduct to be protected. By rising to uphold our Nation's values, ethical law enforcement officers choose a conflict for which no education, experience, or training can prepare them. They discover their communities breached and their opponent already beyond their gates. They confront criminals, intimidators, and tyrants that disguise themselves wearing the same badge they hold so dear. They advance against others who would otherwise seek to abuse the public, control the narrative, investigate themselves or obscure the truth beneath a facade of pursuing the greater good. Afterward, they often find themselves cast out, lost, and silenced permanently from their profession for doing nothing more than what we asked of them: Policing.

– Austin Handle

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Some put on a strong facade but eventually broke down. Some got frustrated and upset. Many of them were ashamed and embarrassed, it was often difficult testimony to listen to. But, you know what ? As difficult as it was for all of us to hear, it was far worse for them to experience and relive.

– Nadia Shihata

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The defendant's fraudulent scheme made her a billionaire. The scheme brought her fame, it brought her honor, and it brought her adoration, she had become, as she sought, one of the most celebrated CEOs in Silicon Valley and the world, but under the facade of Theranos' success, there were significant problems brewing.

– Robert Leach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I saw cracks in the stucco facade. I saw deterioration of the concrete balconies.

– Jason Borden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Then came Rio Olympics. United States ' Missy Franklin had never been through anything like Rio Olympics before. There were plenty of tears, even as United States ' Missy Franklin tried to maintain United States ' Missy Franklin smiling, upbeat facade. It was brutal, United States ' Missy Franklin recalled. You are literally on the biggest stage in the world and falling short of every single goal youve set for yourself. You truly feel like youre embarrassing yourself. Yet, that was when United States ' Missy Franklin found something deep inside, something United States ' Missy Franklin always hoped was there but wouldnt really know until she went through such a trying ordeal. Its really easy to inspire people in success and when youre doing well. Its really hard to inspire people when youre failing, when youre falling on your butt, now I have to show up and be that person I always said I wanted to be in a situation like this. While this has been a solitary journey in many ways, Franklins husband has helped greatly in easing the transition from competitive swimming. When his wife-to-be was contemplating whether to have another surgery, he pointed out that there were far more important things still to come, that had nothing to do with being a star athlete. Theres always going to be a part of me thats still working through it, still reflecting and seeing what else I can take away from it.

– United States

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

To have secrets and to have to live keeping those secrets from people, i've certainly had my struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction, mental health, and I know what it's like to have to put up a facade and have an external experience not match the internal experience. I felt like that was my strongest asset in trying to articulate what the guy's going through.

– Eric Dane

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The building is significant architecturally for its intact Renaissance Revival facade that stretches around a corner site and for its steel skeleton-frame construction, features that exemplify the stylistic character and technological advances in skyscraper architecture at the time it was built.

– Landmarks Preservation Commission

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I'm crying because you guys don't know the truth, you guys are believing some fucking façade that our parents are saying. These are all fucking lies for money.

– Azriel Clary

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The building had no elevator, The Associated Press reported, citing city records. Fire escapes were visible on the facade of the building. The fire department responded to emergency calls within three minutes. Witnesses described the scene of the fire and the panic from the building's tenants. Xanral Collins, Xanral Collins, told the New York Post Xanral Collins saw a father running toward the building, but was unable to enter. I saw Xanral Collins screaming,' My babies are dead ! My babies are dead !' Xanral Collins said. Jamal Flicker, Jamal Flicker told the New York Post Jamal Flicker heard screams for help. The smoke was crazy, people screaming,' Get out ! Jamal Flicker said. I heard a woman yelling,' We're trapped, help !' Neighborhood resident Robert Gonzalez, who has a friend who lives in the building, told the Associated Press she got out on a fire escape as another resident fled with five children. When I got here, she was crying, Robert Gonzalez said. Kwabena Mensah told the Daily News Kwabena Mensah feared Kwabena Mensah son, Kwabena Mensah, Kwabena Mensah, was one of the victims of the devastating fire. Kwabena Mensah came home from the Army about a week ago for the holidays, Kwabena Mensah said. Kwabena Mensah said Kwabena Mensah son’s roommate saw Kwabena Mensah before the fire broke out in the building. Kwabena Mensah was telling the roommate to not come out of the apartment because there was smoke. But when they rescued everyone from the windows, we couldn't find Kwabena Mensah. I went to four hospitals, I can't find Kwabena Mensah.

– Kwabena Mensah

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I always look forward to introducing him to my friends, especially the ones with preconceived notions, because they meet a man with natural charm and no facade. In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. My friends walk away with a glimpse of all that he is and all that he means to me -- of the strong, protective, kind, endearing man I am so proud to call my father.

– Marla Maples

Found on CNN
6 years ago

He did so with such intelligence and such an elevated vocabulary that I was completely duped by the whole facade, many people see him as the victim and me as the perpetrator.

– Mary Beth Haglin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Authorities genuinely forgot that the facade was here, they also forgot to secure the spot properly.

– Geoffroy Coomans De Brachene

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

That is just a facade, for us nothing is repaired.

– Yolanda Sanchez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Venezuela is really a dictatorship, we have a facade of democracy.

– Julieta Lopez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Behind the facade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course.

– International Energy Agency

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

On the face of it, the oil price appears to be stabilizing. What a precarious balance it is, however, behind the façade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course, and it might be overly optimistic to expect it to proceed smoothly.

– The IEA

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

On the face of it, the oil price appears to be stabilising. What a precarious balance it is, however, behind the façade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course, and it might be overly optimistic to expect it to proceed smoothly.

– The IEA

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

– Douglas Hostadter

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you.

– Swordfish

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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