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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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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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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The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course now, nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.
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I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.
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Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used to listen to English music. I didn't even understand one word. You know? But it just makes me feel great.
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As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'
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What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.
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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.
