Misty Copeland Quotes
The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
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Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
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About homophobes As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.
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More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and several other Muslim nations are governed by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed in the days immediately after 9/11.
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.
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The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
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When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
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Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
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Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance.
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The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.
