Laverne Cox Quotes
My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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I have a great office.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying 'Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?' 'Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?' 'Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?'
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Fear is something I try not to absorb.
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My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
