e. e. cummings Quotes
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I like wet hair and sweatpants. I like sneakers and ponytails.
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Maybe the restaurants could change the rules to allow smoking only at night when it becomes more of a bar setting.
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Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.
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Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
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Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
