"I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone."

-- Kristina Schroder

#Role Models Quotes #Example Quotes #Roles Quotes

“Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.”
“Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.”
“Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.”
“You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.”
“John Lennon was a musical genius. All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good... and I'm not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations.”
“To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in, is just thrilling. When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.”
“Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.”

Source : Anagarika Dharmapala (1965). “Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala”
“Marc/Faythe/Jace love triangle moment: "This isn't about you...." "Well, it should be!" he shouted, and I flinched. "Everything I do is about you, and I want the reverse to be true, too." I wiped more tears, my throat aching with words that would only make this worse. "What, you need a reminder? That's what he was doing, right? And now you smell like him. You probably taste like him. You should taste like me..." He was on me before I could even catch my breath...”

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