Wangari Maathai Quotes
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I like to be against the odds.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
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When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
