Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
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...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
