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• Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face our own silence is an enormous luxury that should not be taken for granted. The most rewarding moments in my life have stemmed from such stillness.

  Romany Malco

  Media, Luxury, Silence

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Many things inspire me, but at this moment in my life, my daughter is my greatest inspiration. Working hard has taken on a whole new meaning since I had her. I want to make a great life for myself so she can have a great life.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Daughter, Inspiration, Inspire

  "Actor Roselyn Sánchez: On Working in a Business Based on Rejection and Celebrating What Makes her Different". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

  Dick Durbin

  Rights, President, Citizens

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The greatest disaster of all was after all the difficulties and loss of life and expenditures, President [Barak] Obama walked away, in 2011, and it is a disaster. And now we've got half of Iraq under the ISIS control and terrorists, and Iran has moved in because we weren't there, and they've taken more influence. Just a few thousand troops, in my opinion, would have avoided that.

  Jeff Sessions

  Loss, Isis, Iran

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I've seen my family work so hard and come up, and I've seen it all get taken away. I had to man up, and part of that was sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month, and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25 - $35 hotels. I just never panicked. I stayed focused and I never surrendered.

  DJ Khaled

  Sleep, Men, Car

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I do think that she [Hillary Clinton] will prove that she's the best, whether she's in the White House or somewhere else. I think it will very much be a historic moment, when we are able to say that we actually have done something like put a woman in the White House. Its very interesting to think about considering its taken us long as it has.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, White

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• We're doing quite well in some states, but there are states that you can't - I mean, it's just ridiculous the representation of women, and having been an advocate for women, lobbied in many states as well as here at the national level for women. People behave differently when there are women at the table, men do. Our issues get higher prominence. We're taken more seriously.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Mean, Men, Issues

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• I believe strongly that we need a finance industry that is good for the economy, and I don't think anybody would argue that during the eight years leading up to the Great Recession, a lot of bets were made [and] risks taken that weren't good for the economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I have struggled to be taken seriously as a female athlete. I have struggled to find my worth outside of winning. I have struggled to accept parts of myself. Now I'm recognizing the beauty in those parts as well as beauty in the times when things didn't go my way.

  Lynsey Dyer

  Athlete, Winning, Female

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• When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Prayer, Manage

  "Jonathan Jackson: On Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Genuine Prayer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Dancing in public spaces and moving your body freely in a public space is reclaiming what was taken from you when you were violated. The energy of that - you can't capture it, you can't own it. Capitalists can't buy it.It can't be sold. It can't be monetized. And that's why I think it's so powerful.

  Eve Ensler

  Powerful, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

  Kandyse McClure

  Care, Firsts, Ifs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step foot on this island, it's taken you a week to get there by boat - and you step near to an albatross nest. It doesn't even look at you as the enemy. You get this great nature moment. Until you realize the albatross, along with the thousands of other winged albatrosses next to it, has constructed its nest of trash.

  Jeff Corwin

  Feet, Islands, People

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• I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

  Dennis Green

  Writing, Class, Training

  Source: lennoxrandon.com

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• [T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

  Amy Richards

  Our Generation, Water, Feminism

  Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.

  Erin Richards

  Long, Appreciate, Creative

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• I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas, Austin, and they collected some of his writings and put them in a little collection. It's called DreamTigers in English, but it doesn't exist in Spanish. It's a little sampler. But that collection in English is what struck me, because in there he has his poems, and I was a poet as well as a fiction writer.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Writing, Texas

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up.

  Nancy Knowlton

  People, Backyards, Add

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• My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Giving, World

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, People, Community

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

  Sylvia Earle

  Together, Lifetime, Humans

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.

  Achim Steiner

  Vision, Today, Action

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I think it depends on the individual. It also depends on what's available. There may be a better alternative, then there may not. If there's not a better alternative, then you stay. But it could be there's a better alternative where you're taken care of better.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Alternatives, Care

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Out of 40,000+ herbs used worldwide, perhaps only 50-60 of them are tonic superherbs. These superherbs should be taken for long periods, because, like all tonics, they are more like food and they build health treasures within and nourish our "stress defense shield."

  David Wolfe

  Stress, Long, Defense

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• I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

  Val Kilmer

  Ambition, Careers, Actors

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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