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“But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.”
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“Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”
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“So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.”
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“I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional”
Source : Twitter post from Sep 05, 2010
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“Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.”
Source : "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.
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“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
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“I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.”
Source : Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.174
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“Believe in your dreams and that anything is possible.”