"When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me"

-- Shannon Miller

#Growing Up Quotes #Eye Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.”
“According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.”
“I felt like I already knew how to race by the time I was four. I was always at the race track with my dad. I watched him race thousands of laps in a sprint car standing on top of a trailer watching him, getting down and cleaning the mud off his car. That's just what I grew up doing.”
“Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is not the in thing, it is harder to break someone like me. And I'm a woman too, it's ridiculous.”
“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
“Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional”

Source : Trinh T. Minh-ha (2014). “When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics”, p.193, Routledge
“And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.”
“If you don't know or didn't understand, ASK! It's your responsibility to find out. Research; demonstrate an unquenchable desire to know everything about your job. If something is broken or not right, take the initiative to fix it or make”

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