Abby Wambach Quotes
I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
