Ed Mayo Quotes
What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.
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I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
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They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
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Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
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The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
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Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
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I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.
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Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.
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On some level, there's a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who's talking to a limited audience of people. He's talking to people who more or less already agree with him.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation.
