Luvvie Ajayi Quotes
I think that if everybody committed themselves to making a better world than how we found it, things would be much better than what they are.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.
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Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.
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Fake it until you make it.
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Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
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I think that if everybody committed themselves to making a better world than how we found it, things would be much better than what they are.
