Anna Julia Cooper Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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I feel that since I was a little, little person, I knew that one of my life goals was to tell stories and bring joy to people.
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As you wrestle with life... You're going to come out on the other end healed... I've fallen short sometimes, and I've risen pretty high a few times.
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My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.
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Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
