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Tara Westover Quotes

I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1986

Topics

Mind Kind Matter Abuse Theory

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

Game Trying Down Sense Taking Many

The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.

Matthew Heineman

Life War Ideas Computers Violence

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Me You Back Train Sometimes Run

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

Robbie Williams

Responsibility Solo Act Being Huge

In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Music Art People You Know Hollywood

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Yourself You Back More Pretending

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Slavery Hold Take Many Few Takes

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

Challenge I Am Long Partnership

Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate.

Life Success Adversity Football Me

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Men Greatness Action Famous Dignity

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Life You Know Never Happen Going

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

Sick Fat You Know Lifestyle Get

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