Leah Ward Sears Quotes
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
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I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
