Warsan Shire Quotes
Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)
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Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
