LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Donna Summer) Quotes
I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
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I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'
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Hard work, careful planning, and realistic financial advice will be required by many to regain solvency.
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I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
