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You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Try
  • Word
  • Saying

• The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Given

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Progress

• I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Me
  • Duty
  • Volunteer

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Up
  • Know
  • Thought

• I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Cancer
  • Medical
  • Treat

• I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

  

  Iman
  • Political
  • Science
  • Fashion

• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Freedom
  • Jazz
  • Musicians

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Thought
  • New York
  • Living

• My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Different
  • Play
  • Problem

• When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Taxes
  • Left
  • Emissions

• WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Law
  • Sleep
  • Dancing

• For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Pretty
  • Career

• Generally, the feeling was the conditions were borderline unsafe to race.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Feeling
  • Conditions
  • Borderline

• You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

  

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