Wangari Maathai Quotes
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
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After you play a part, you think of it as your own.
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We live in an age dominated by the problem of limits. We are witnessing the end of progress. We have reached the saturation point. Are we going beyond these limits? Are we going to take the risk? There is much work to do to maintain the planet.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
