"No one can degrade us except ourselves."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Positive Quotes

“I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.”
“I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.”
“I really wanted to travel around the world, and give a strong hug to every fan of BIGBANG.”
“When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.”
“No matter how many WEAPONS you have, no matter how great your TECHNOLOGY might be, the world cannot live without LOVE.”

Source : "Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta [Castle in the Sky]". www.imdb.com. July 14, 1987.
“I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'”

Source : "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.
“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
“It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.”

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