Amandla Stenberg Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
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Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations where - as an actor - you have to think fast & be light on your feet.
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You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.
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A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.
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Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.
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You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.
