"We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant,"

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Source : "Wake Forest University commencement speech". www.theguardian.com. 2014.

Jill Abramson

#Realizing Quotes #Resilient Quotes #Humans Quotes

“But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.”
“Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all over the world. He seemed to speak to people at their very core and achieved the impossible. He reached people on a deep emotional level. And that is what any great artist or showman dreams of doing. That is why Michael Jackson was so special to me.”
“Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?”
“We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.”
“You can hurt people's feelings if you laugh.”
“It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!”
“The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential â€” and enemies to push us beyond it.”
“I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress”

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