Roxane Gay Quotes

Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

Roxane Gay

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They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.

Robert Kraft

WorkHard WorkNever Give UpDreams

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Matthew Goode

WorkAlwaysEverythingPrettyTense

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

John Woolman

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I know that everyone has their own ideas about what the good life is, and hip hop has especially strong ideas about it. It's been the same old thing for years and years: a bunch of females around you, nice cars and money. I wanted people to know what the good life actually is and challenge a lot of the lies that we're told.

Trip Lee

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Roger Craig

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As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

Michelle Shocked

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I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.

Deborah Raney

FamilyGoalsParentsBelieveWedding

The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

Brendan I. Koerner

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People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

Wiz Khalifa

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You cannot be from Atlanta and not know who Gucci Mane is, period.

Playboi Carti

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Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.

Peyton Manning

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