"The only safe thing is to take a chance."
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"Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty."
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"When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus."
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"The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown."
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"A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility."
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"We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible."
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"I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun and the song was just telling everyone just forget what people are saying. You’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies."
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"Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves."
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"Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree."
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"There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again."
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"You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are."
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"Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything."
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"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
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"You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want"
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"Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you."
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"The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing."
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"The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are."
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"~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~"
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"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."
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"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."
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