"All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life."

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Source : "Cristela Alonzo, Making Funny Her Own Way". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.

Barbara Jordan

#Inspirational Life Quotes #Believe Quotes #Play Quotes

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”

Source : FaceBook post by P.D. James from Jan 20, 2015
“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

Source : Klondike Annie (motion picture) (1936) See Homer 5
“When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.”
“Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.”
“As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.”
“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.”
“The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.”
“You don't make art, you find it”

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