"I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare."
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"Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes."
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"If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on."
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"We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom."
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"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
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"Every journey begins with a single step."
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"When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?"
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"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."
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"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."
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"You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway."
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"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are."
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"I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard."
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"To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do."
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"Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them."
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"The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer."
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"We need much less than we think we need."
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"I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me."
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"There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?"
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"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."
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"Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls."
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