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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Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.
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I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.
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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.
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What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
