Retta (Marietta Sangai Sirleaf) Quotes
My obsession is TV and movies, so I order an obscene amount of DVDs. And I have an obsession with handbags. So once a year, I treat myself to a luxury handbag.
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I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
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The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.
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Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.
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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.
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There could never really be justice on stolen land.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be
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Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.
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Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.
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I believe we all need to be aware of the biases we have. I am aware of mine; I am a white woman who grew up in a middle-class American family with a mom and a dad who were both educators. I can't make it different - I wouldn't want to - and I don't want to pretend to be something I'm not.
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Ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.
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My obsession is TV and movies, so I order an obscene amount of DVDs. And I have an obsession with handbags. So once a year, I treat myself to a luxury handbag.
