Nancy Mairs Quotes
From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
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I'm just letting it go. I'm swinging at what I need to swing at. And when the time comes, I'll just do what I always done. It's just a matter of going out and feeling better. I feel like I'm involved in spring training and when that's the case I'm going to be myself.
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The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.
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A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.
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Those who act receive the prizes.
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
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Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.
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What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
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Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
