"You have to decide what's important to you and work it out. When I'm with my family, I try to concentrate on my family and when I'm at work, I try to concentrate on my work."

-- JJ Ramberg

#Important Quotes #Trying Quotes #My Family Quotes

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
“If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.”
“Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.”
“In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.179, Simon and Schuster
“There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media
“Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.”
“Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.”

Source : "Reinventing the Federal Budget" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2010.
“As a feminist you feel you have to be actively doing things â€¨to relieve womenâ€™s plight. Actually, feminism is just thinking â€¨we should have the same rights as men”

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