"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."
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"When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, why can't I do anything I want to do? You know, go for it."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"They dont want you to exercise."
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"I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!"
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"If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering"
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"Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want."
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"One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly"
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"If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want."
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"And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?"
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"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
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"Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to."
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"There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living."
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"I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it."
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"if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !"
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"FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'"
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"An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else."
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"You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.""
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"In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want."
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"Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any."
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