Joan Blades Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I was 179 pounds. That means by the time I walked in the cage, I was probably 175, 174 pounds.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.
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You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
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A miss is as good as a mile.
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
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Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential.
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I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
