"Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work."

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Source : Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

Emanuel Cleaver

#Morning Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.”
“Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.80, Penguin
“My teammates, they keep you focused.”
“And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
“I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.”
“Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.”

Source : "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.
“I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.”

Source : "With Abrams in place, 'Star Wars' fans brace for future" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2013.
“You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.”

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