Misty Copeland Quotes
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
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Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
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Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.
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It seems strange that everyone I'm writing about was very famous.... Didn't I ever find anyone interesting who was not famous? Actually, no, I didn't.
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Ballet.something pure in this crazy world
