"I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches."

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Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

Diahann Carroll

#Country Quotes #Cancer Quotes #People Quotes

“The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.”
“This is all about knowing a market, ... and it's so thorough that even if you don't have personal experience in that market you can still go into it and find out, what are the things that people will pay money for!”
“The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.”

Source : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.179, Syracuse University Press
“And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...”
“As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.25, Penguin UK
“You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.”

Source : "Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics" by Steven Merritt Miner, (p. 109), 2003.
“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
“I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.”

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