Paula Patton Quotes
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.
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The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
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In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale.
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Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.
