Black people are achievers; we're survivors.
Roxie Roker
Recitation: by Male by Female
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
Jessica Valenti
WorkMarriageMotherTogetherLoss
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms
HealthJealousyEnjoyTryingBad
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.
Joel Edgerton
FitnessSilenceMovingStillnessBig
I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.
Joel Osteen
SimplePeopleBelieveGoSayArgue
I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.
Jenny Holzer
WritingShortSeeBeganMaterial
I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.
John Lee Hancock
StoryKnowAustraliaOriginBooks
Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.
Matthias Schoenaerts
PeopleLookingDeepYouAppearance
But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.
Robert Conrad
MeControlEgoThinkMeetingGo
I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.
Michael Oher
SmartMeToughYouKnowResources
I think for a lot of guys when they get taken down it's like the end of the world and they freak out about it but training with the team I have here, I have been in a lot of bad positions before and I'm no slouch on the ground either, so if it goes down there, I'm comfortable and can win the fight down there or get back to my feet and end it there.
Brendan Schaub
TrainingFightTeamWinWorldThink
No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.
Bruce Hornsby
LovePlaySolo
I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
August Wilson
WorkMyselfPeopleThinkSelfSay
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