Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Quotes
When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.
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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
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Every team we play is a rivalry in a sense, because you try to win every game. That's what it's all about. Who knows who came up with this rivalry?
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.
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Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.
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Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.
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As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.
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To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.
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Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
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When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
