Anodea Judith Quotes
It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
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What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
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Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
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What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.
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To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
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It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.
