I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.- Frank Zappa

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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

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One must be something to do something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'. ― Fredrik Backman

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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. - Deng Xiaoping

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It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it. - Dolores Huerta

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Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

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Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.

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Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness". ― Clementine Holzinger

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