Anjelah Johnson Quotes
Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
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The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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That, thought Mrs. Fisher, her eyes going steadily line by line down the page and not a word of it getting through into her consciousness, is foolish of friends. It is condemning one to a premature death. One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead—obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life. What she would dislike would be unripening, going back to something green. She would dislike it intensely; and this is what she felt she was on the brink of doing. Naturally it made her very uneasy, and only in constant movement could she find distraction. Increasingly restless and no longer able to confine herself to her battlements, she wandered more and more frequently, and also aimlessly, in and out of the top garden.
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I really didn't know it would feel this emotional. Everybody was excited, especially these seniors. They went four years without beating these guys, but we made up for everything tonight.
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Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.
