Sarah Breedlove (Madam C. J. Walker) Quotes
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Respect the burden.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.
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I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
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If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all of research, and we need a balance.
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And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
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God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
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I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.