Nannie Helen Burroughs Quotes
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
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But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
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A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
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I was trying not to mention backtracking. Which, of course, means that yours is 'righter' than mine, in a theoretical sense.
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I can’t comment on Soundgarden because I know them personally and I really like them a lot, but I have strong feelings towards Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and bands like that. They’re obviously just corporate puppets that are just trying to jump on the alternative bandwagon - and we are being lumped into that category.
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I look at film, but more than watching individual players, I'm trying to watch a team's whole offensive scheme. I'm trying to know their tendencies so I can... guess. That's what it comes down to, really, making the best guess.
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I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.
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They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
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I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.
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I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.
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We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.
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In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence.
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As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.
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No matter how much you might feed off negativity, a positive message is always stronger.
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Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.
