Jane Addams Quotes
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
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Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
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We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
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All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
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No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.
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If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
