Anna Maria Chavez Quotes
Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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War is over if you want it.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'
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People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.
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Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.
