Plautus Quotes
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
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Straight people are everywhere!
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
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I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
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In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.
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As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain't my god.
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Male partum, male disperit.
