Laura van den Berg Quotes

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

Laura van den Berg

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LearningYouthWorldSelfYouWay

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Jesse Jackson

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There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.

Anjelica Huston

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Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

John Redwood

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I just struggle with the fame thing and people thinking I'm something I'm not. I'll always struggle with that until the day I die, I think.

Tony Bellew

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I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

Rodney Mullen

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It's hard for people who come from traditional homes to take women seriously. I do it myself. We're just not used to seeing women professionals. Women have to go out of their way to prove themselves.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

Dennis Rodman

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An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.

Donald Faison

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Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.

Colm Feore

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I am obsessed with my viewers.

Colleen Ballinger

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What most did not understand then was that I was not only married to the man I loved, but I was also married to the movement that I loved.

Coretta Scott King

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