Rebecca Skloot Quotes
The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
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I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
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Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.
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You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.
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Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
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People need to treat animals like they would treat a kid. You have to take care of it, make sure they are happy and they have anything they need. If you don’t have the time, then you don’t need an animal. … I want people to be aware of what is around them. Just because they don’t want to deal with it, doesn’t mean they can shut it out.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
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Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
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Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
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We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.
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If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.
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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
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The juniper-scented liquor had volatilized his thoughts; he should be thinking that madness caused this man to call himself a king, but was thinking rather that kingship had driven this man mad.
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
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The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'
