Abu Bakr Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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You have good days and bad days.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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I definitely try to live my life in a very fearless manner, but there are no other sports that you jump from a three-story building and land on your hands! Diving is a lot like life. You just have to trust in what you know and allow it to happen.
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The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.
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No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
