Marley Dias Quotes
Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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I worked my butt off.
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Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn't what to include, but what to leave out.
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Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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We're careful not to saturate people.
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Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.
