Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t.
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A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
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I knew Mrs. Liberace. Lee and I were great friends. I know the whole inside story.
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This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color.
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Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
