Nuno Oliveira Quotes
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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Irrigate crops at short intervals and apply light irrigation especially in the evening.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.
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If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone...
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Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.
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The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.
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The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
