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Personal Quotes
"Some lessons are learnt the hard way, but worth it."
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"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
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"She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever."
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"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
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"You shouldn't allow people who hurt you to occupy a fraction of your heart. Forgive and move on, especially in this season of thanksgiving."
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"Normal? I'm not normal enough for you?' Carlos says. 'You want this guy instead? Did you notice his hair doesn't move? That's not normal. You want to date him again, go ahead. Hell, if you want to marry him and be Kiara Barra the rest of your life, be my guest.''That's not want I--''I don't want to hear it. Hasta,' Carlos says, ignoring me and walking away.I feel my face heat in embarrassment as I look at Michael. 'Sorry. Carlos can he abrasive sometimes.''Don't apologize. The guy obviously has major issues and, for the record, my hair moves... when I want it to."
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"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
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"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
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"How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit."
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"I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming."
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"And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too."
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"But suppose your dA mon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dA mon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up."
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"It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. 'A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection."
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"I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice."
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"They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet, when I wanted to run, shout, jump, fly."
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"Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them."
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"Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog."
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"You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever."
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"I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it."
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"Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction."
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"It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly."
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"You need to be your own cheer squad not your own worst enemy."
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"Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want."
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"But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else."
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"We really never so important for people as much as we think and feel.Do not afraid to live and die alone. it is not a pity at all , its much better to live in fake relation and with people who do not love you and do not have respect and value of your love."
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"I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them."
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"If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated."
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"Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress."
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"I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on a bumpy road."
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"Confidence scares off whatever stands in your way."
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"Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic."
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"I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've followed strange paths and worshipped strange gods; it must have come to you again and again--in fact you've admitted to me as much--that I was leading, at any time these thirty years, a selfish frivolous scandalous life. And you see what it has made of me."
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"Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary."
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"You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy."
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"Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path."
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"When you imitate others in real life, you deny the world benefits of your uniqueness. So be who you were born to be!."
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