Chinua Achebe Quotes
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I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.
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If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?
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I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.
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Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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The existence of sexual energy is such an every-day part of life. It's such a natural aspect of life. That we end up relating to without any shame. (Much Music 1991).
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In 1968 the end of art was announced, but this was for political reasons and for the wrong reasons. At that time it was believed that as long as there were only formal relationships, one did not have to deal with a luxury such as art.
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'The central defect of the human mind,' Custine said, 'is its unfortunate habit of seeing patterns where none exist. Of course, that is also its chief asset.''But sometimes a very dangerous one.'
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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
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When an honorable man yields, in an hour of weakness, to temptation, his first step toward atonement is confession.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
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As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
