Kay Hooper Quotes
I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can
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I'm cranky.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.
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I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.
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The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
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The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
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I don't have the best feet.
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The fight for a truly inclusive nation that embraces its diversity is not over and perhaps will never be.
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I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.
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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can
