bell hooks Quotes
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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In order to connect and nurture, it is not just helpful to be in touch with feelings, it is necessary. So men’s first job – their next evolutionary strategy – involves being in touch with their feelings.
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The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.
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An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, - Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, - Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
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Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
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He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.
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Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them.
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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
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But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.