Martha Reeves Quotes
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
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We shred every day.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
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I love all things Christmas.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.
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Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or find someone else.
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We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.
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If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
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To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
