Jasmine Guy Quotes
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
Barbara Kingsolver -
It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
Gabby Douglas -
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
Randa Haines -
The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
Bat for Lashes -
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
Maggie Q -
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
Venus Williams
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In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.
Osman Baydemir -
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson -
With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!
Eric Lynn Wright -
Let me make one point about the hunger strike in the Maze prison. I want this to be utterly clear. There can be no political justification for murder or any other crime. The Government will never concede political status to the hunger strikers, or to any others convicted of criminal offences in the Province.
Margaret Thatcher -
I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me.
Labrinth LSD
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
Jane Smiley -
When issues emerge that might harm a campaign, like the Clinton e-mails, you have to get all the facts out right away, but not before you have all the facts.
Bob Beckel -
I love the gym; I love basketball. I'm really passionate about it.
Kyrie Irving -
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
Anne Enright -
On the personal level, the people that follow you on Twitter are always nice to hear from.
Jim Rash -
We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.
Jochen Zeitz
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I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
Pierce Brosnan -
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving -
Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
Willy Ley -
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
Jon Meacham -
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
Peter Straub -
We are a complex species to observe.
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