Wangari Maathai Quotes
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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When you make the playoffs, it's like you've done your job for the team. I've got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.
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I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
