Strong Quotes
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'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director - and, I believe, the first African-American trans director - to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.
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One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending
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It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
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Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
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The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are necessary.
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I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.
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Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.
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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
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The personal mission statement was important for me because I believe that you can't lead others unless you have a strong sense of who you are and what you stand for.
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I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.
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I love using a targeted acquisition approach in conjunction with a business that has a clear strategy and strong organic growth.
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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I feel that my ideas of beauty have been given very strong backing by Botticelli and a few others: Slender hands, long neck, long limbs - look at Nefertiti. She was very teensy-weensy with a long neck and wide-spaced eyes.
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Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.
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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
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Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.
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Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.
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Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"
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If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting.
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To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.
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We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.
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I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.
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If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.