"When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust."

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Source : Elizabeth Streb (2010). “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero”, p.51, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Elizabeth Streb

#Life Quotes #Dance Quotes #Dream Quotes

“In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.”
“O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.”

Source : Gaspara Stampa, “Rime 28”
“Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.”
“When people are described as difficult and have a reputation as difficult it's 99% of the time because they've been disappointed over and over again by people who don't really know what to do for them, and I know I'm going to make them happy and I can't wait to work with them.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.”
“I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.”

Source : "Curls and dimples: Shirley Temple, child star who made 'em smile during Depression, dies at 85", www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2014.
“Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.”
“I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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