Wilma Rudolph Quotes
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.
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I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.
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I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.
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I think America is a great place to grow up. It's a good lifestyle.
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I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
