Bessie Coleman Quotes
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
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'The Shining' scares me so much.
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Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.
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With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now.
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Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services. I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.
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Don't look back all you'll ever get is the dust from the steps before I don't have to see you every day, but I just want to know youre there
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I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.
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You've never lived till you've flown!
