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• I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real obstacles. My motto is just unconsciously, and maybe now consciously because I'm saying it, is sink or swim. I'm a fighter.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Mom, Strong, Real

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks SURVIVING EVIL, Telling Her Own Story of Survival, Connecting to Other Survivors, and Finding the Strength to Move On". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'

  Thomas Sowell

  New York, Reality, Long

  Thomas Sowell (2010). “Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays”, p.266, Basic Books

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• It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Individual, Share

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• We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

  LeBron James

  Winning, Games, Trying

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• The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Commitment, Responsibility

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• Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

  Arthur Mattuck

  Art, Mathematics, Figures

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• His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But I was with a frog, so it doesn't matter. I'll do anything with a frog, that's my motto. He's great with tap-dancing or flap-dancing on my head. So no one's going to be looking at me when we're doing that dance. They're going to be saying, 'There's a frog dancing'.

  Ricky Gervais

  Song, Moving, Dancing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.

  Richard Jeni

  Animal, Live In The Moment, Littles

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• I haven't rebelled yet. I don't know, I think maybe just moving up here (to L.A.) by myself counts. But I never really felt the urge. I was always given so much freedom as a kid. My mom's motto was, 'My trust is yours to lose, so I'll give you every trust in the world. But the second I give you an inch and you take a mile, I'm going to pull it back.'

  Cassidy Erin Gifford

  Mom, Moving, Kids

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• He [Barack Obama] just seemed very firm about the change, and that's, like, his motto.

  Kim Kardashian

  Firm, Barack

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• It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.

  Lisa Maffia

  Children, Lying, Responsibility

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• There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."

  Edwidge Danticat

  Cutting, House, Leader

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Libertarian, Libertine, Describe Myself

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• The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

  Felix Adler

  Heart, Sake, Moral

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

  William Safire

  Latin, Government, Office

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• On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.

  Christopher Reeve

  Wall, Space, Rehabilitation

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• Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Principles, Politics, Expediency

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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• [On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.

  Joan Rivers

  Fall, Trying, Stuff

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• I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

  Peg Bracken

  Wall, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

  Hosea Ballou

  Clergymen, Theme, Preaching

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• 'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal!

  Andre Iguodala

  Nba Championships, Unreal, Coaches

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• Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

  James Gleick

  Children, Play, Outlook On Life

  James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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• Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

  Gayle Forman

  Regret, Momentum, No Regrets

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.204, Penguin

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• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Fall, Science, Simple

  Alfred North Whitehead (1964). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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