Michael Sam Quotes
I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.
Quotes to Explore
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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No one is India.
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While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.
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I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
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Isn’t the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?
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I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.
