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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My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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Compassion is like springwater under the ground. Your life is like a pipe that can tap into that underground spring. When you tap into it, water immediately comes up. So drive your pipe into the ground. Tap into the water of compassion.
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My greatest hope is that we will see a day when Israel will stand tall as a symbol of belonging across the Jewish world, and when global citizens will look to Jerusalem as the vibrant, modern, inclusive capital of Israel.
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Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
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I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
