Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes
You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.
Quotes to Explore
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'm a huge believer in power of women on the web.
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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
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The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
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So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.
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One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
