Philomena Kwao Quotes
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
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I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
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I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.
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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
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Before finding a mentor, I feel it's essential to really find your own calling and passion. From my experience, this will become a guiding bond in this kind of relationship. Be curious and engaged - and push yourself actively. Be as good as you can at what you love to do, and you will certainly get a mentor's attention.
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I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
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Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.
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If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
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Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
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..the point of a randomizing device like a coin flip, is to make the result uncontrollable by making it sensitive to so many variables that no feasible, finite list of conditions can be singled out as the cause.
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You can always tell when gas is expensive. You always see street gangs doing walk-bys.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Appendix D, The Awful German Language
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If you call me 'fat,' it doesn't bother me because I just don't care.
