"I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV."

-- Misty Copeland

#Growing Up Quotes #Gymnastics Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There's this whole sexy thing that happens to women when we walk the red carpet, and it's all okay! At home, I am so many other things! I am just a girl dreaming. I am emotional and goofy.”
“All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.”
“To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.”
“Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?”
“I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.”
“We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.”
“The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.”

Source : Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo (2015). “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing”, p.117, Pickle Partners Publishing
“There were mistakes that I made that I did learn from. When you don't have responsibilities, the only responsibility is for yourself, but when you have someone there to mentor you, then you don't make stupid mistakes.”

Source : Source: www.cyinterview.com

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