J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole."
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Roles
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Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone"
Jean Piaget
Psychologist, Philosopher
"What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research."
Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed."
Mother Meera
Spiritual Teacher
"When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself."
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"I know my role and I play it well."
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"Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet."
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"It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that."
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"As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus."
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"The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails."
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"People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with."
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"Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind."
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"The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do."
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"Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically."
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"The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval."
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"I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world."
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"The role of the artist is to not look away."
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"Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace."
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"Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential."
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"You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!"
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"My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed."
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"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."
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"I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are."
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"The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential"
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"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events."
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