"You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life."

-- Meshell Ndegeocello

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.”
“I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.”
“Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.185, Macmillan
“Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.”
“If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.”
“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”
“Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.”

Source : Janice Kaplan (1979). “Women and Sports: 2”, Viking Adult
“Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.”

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