Wangari Maathai Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the big driver of this effort is education. Period. We have a lot of students not gaining the skills they need, and it is pretty clear that school does not offer enough time to get that job done.
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Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.
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Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
