Brenda Shoshanna Quotes
Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.
Quotes to Explore
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I always played to win.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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Reason has moons, but moons not hersLie mirror'd on her sea,Confounding her astronomers,But, O! delighting me.
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I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.
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Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.
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If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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The only people who make love all the time are liars.
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I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.
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Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.
