Wangari Maathai Quotes
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.
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As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
