Liz Murray Quotes
I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
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Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.
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I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
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All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
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I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.
