Jane Addams Quotes
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
Quotes to Explore
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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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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.
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I think if you just made a film that says, 'This is anti-war,' and you had to spend two hours explaining that... you don't like war? Wow, that's original. Know what I mean?
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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Every developer will want to live in this world…and it’s our job to build it.
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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.
