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• Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Hate, Needs, Shy

  "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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• And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Complaining, Able

  "Snow Country".

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• When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Painting, Notion

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• I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Paint, Accidents

  "Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner". Book by Ines Janet, 2007.

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• I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

  Carl Rogers

  Believe, People, Personality

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy, Understanding

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• And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

  Barack Obama

  People, Leader, Political

  "Obama Asks Young Israelis To Push For Peace". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.

  Rumi

  Heart, Empathy, World

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• First and foremost, I wear what I love. That's what women have to focus on: what makes them happy and what makes them feel comfortable and beautiful. If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.

  Michelle Obama

  Beautiful, Fashion, Fun

  "Michelle Obama Lately" By Noelle Watters, www.foxnews.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

  Cy Twombly

  Inspirational, Time, Art

  "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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• I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

  Jim Harrison

  Self, Understanding, Losing

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

  Tanith Lee

  Animal, Supernatural Beings, People

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• I can't remember one [example of regulation] that's good. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture - agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad.

  Ronald Coase

  Agriculture, Regulation, Study

  "Looking for Results". Interview with Thomas Winslow Hazlett, reason.com. January 1997.

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• I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

  Paul Samuelson

  Writing, Law, Textbooks

  "Foreword" by Paul Samuelson in "The Principles of Economics Course" edited by ed. Phillips Saunders and William B. Walstad, 1990.

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• My message to the fans would be that hopefully I can continue to perform as consistently as I have done this season and lift a trophy for them soon.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Fans, Would Be

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• I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

  Michael Owen

  Hate, Coffee, Tea

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• When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man fully yielded to Him, and I said I wanted to be that man. But I can say today the world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully yielded to Him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, World, Today

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• Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.

  Emanuel Ungaro

  Destiny, House, Soul

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• There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

  Valentino Garavani

  People, House, Dresses

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• Barry Goldwater once said, "I'd rather be right than president." I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

  Howard Dean

  President, Said, Disagree

  "Dean: Bush made "huge blunder". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  Ian Botham

  Football, Running, Golf

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• It is a grueling position (catching). My knees will tell you that. I've had nine knee surgeries. I've had a couple of broken thumbs, one on each hand. I can look back at it and say it's worth it to be enshrined in Cooperstown. I don't have any pain in my knees right now.

  Gary Carter

  Couple, Pain, Hands

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• I bear a little more than I can bear.

  Elinor Wylie

  Littles, Bears

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.100, Kent State University Press

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• I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

  Jay Electronica

  Self, Practice, Devil

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• When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mean, Exercise

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