Mickey Rooney Quotes
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Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
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I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.
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My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.
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I want to inspire, and be inspired.
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I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.
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We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.
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I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.
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Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
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It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.
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I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.
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If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
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Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
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The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done
