Laura Wade Quotes
I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
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When I learned that there was such a thing as an atheist, I looked it up - and found out that the definition fitted me to a tee. Finally, at the age of 24, I found out who and what I was. Better late than never.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
