"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."

-- Oprah Winfrey

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.”

Source : Sophie Jordan (2011). “Firelight”, p.150, Oxford University Press - Children
“Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.”
“It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.”
“Jealousy, the old worm that bites.”

Source : Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.233, Oxford University Press, USA
“Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.”
“There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.”
“I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.”
“One of the basic philosophical tenets of conservatism - which says that the more power devolves from the federal government to the states, the greater individual freedom grows - is just flatly contradicted by crucial junctures in the country's life, most conspicuously in the 1860s and 1960s, when it's been the federal government that's interceded against the states to secure individual freedom.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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