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• I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Adventure, Pirate, Risk

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

  Eddi Reader

  Men, Giving, Way

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• Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Wall, School, Light

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

  Justin Welby

  Support, Needs, Vulnerable

  "Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Government welfare reforms" by Edward Malnick, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 9, 2013.

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• I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

  Douglas Hyde

  Character, Helping, Celtic

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• I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

  Karin Slaughter

  Children, Thinking, People

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• From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries.

  Theobald of Bec

  Country, Moving, Individual Effort

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• I feel as healthy as I've ever felt.

  Sanya Richards-Ross

  Healthy, Feels

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• Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Years, Joy, Abuse

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• New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.

  June Squibb

  New York, Home, Early 20s

  "84 years an actor". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2014.

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• Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

  Grace Helbig

  Love Is, Young Love, Ridiculous

  Grace Helbig (2014). “Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, Art, Museums

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• It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.

  Macklemore

  Struggle, Live Life, Blood

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• I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

  Lykke Li

  Dolphins, Connections, Understood

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• I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

  Simon Schama

  New York, Green, Bigs

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• When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Forever, Natural

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• When I started swimming again two years ago, it felt like I was starting from scratch. My mind-set was [to tell myself that] every time I swam, it was going to get easier-and it did. When you're working toward a fitness goal, you just need to start. It's not going to be pretty, your body is going to scream at you, but each time you'll get better.

  Janet Evans

  Swimming, Years, Two

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• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  Frances Mayes

  Grandfather, Cotton, Georgia

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• If were honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you dont believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Needs, Honest

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• I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Dancer, Gigs, Canada

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities, and I was just a girl from Idaho.

  Margaux Hemingway

  Girl, Real, Idaho

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Growing Up, Crazy, Two

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• I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

  Charlie Trotter

  Party, People, Fraternity

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