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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When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that - I was infatuated with hip-hop - that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.
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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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I sleep with the drapes open to rise with the sun. I think that's a healthy thing to do because even if you don't like to wake up early, your body does adjust.
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The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.
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I came to know Christ when I was 13 years old at a youth camp I attended. I may not have known much about Him, but I knew I was saved by grace and that, because of the cross, I had a hope like no other. I cannot imagine life without Him.
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Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.
