It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

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If you're going through hell, keep going

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We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

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I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential. — Nicki Minaj

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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. — Michael Jordan

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