"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity."

Nelson DeMille, American Author

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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe."

Madonna Ciccone, American Musician

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"As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to."

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"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa."

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"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

"If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity."

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."

"I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe."

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"As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to."

"I have never voted in my life."

"I am just an artist."

"I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work."

"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."

"People have to find ways of explaining the work."

"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."

"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."

"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa."

"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."