Mara Brock Akil Quotes

I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

Mara Brock Akil

• Life
• Good
• Hand
• Son
• Blessed
• Thankful
• Pregnancy

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• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

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• But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.

  

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• America is another name for opportunity.

  

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• I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

  

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• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

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• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

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• No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  

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• I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.

  

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• It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

  

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• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  

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• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

  

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• I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

  

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• I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

  

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• Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source of force, namely will. How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.

  

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• I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand