Mya (Mýa Marie Harrison) Quotes
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
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Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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Seek the seeker.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.
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O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
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If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.
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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.
