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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Maya Angelou
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
Emeraude Toubia
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I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.
Sade Adu
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit
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It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.
N. K. Jemisin
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
Harry Browne
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I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.
Ariel Winter
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If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.
Eric Shinseki
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
J. C. Chandor
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People think that painting is about colorIt's mostly compositionIt's composition that's the whole thingThe classic image-Two late Tang dishes, one with a flower image,one empty – the empty form goes all the way to heavenIt is the classic form – lighter weight.
Agnes Martin
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.
Saddam Hussein
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
Oscar de la Renta
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Honore de Balzac
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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
James Mark Baldwin
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Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.
Daniel Lubetzky
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I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.
Danzy Senna
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Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.
Irene Dunne
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
William Morris
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
William Morris
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
William Morris
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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower