"I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy."

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Bell Hooks

#Struggle Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.”
“Sometimes things that are comfortable are comfortable because it's what you're good at. When you start doing the things you're not as comfortable with, there needs to be a reason for it.”

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“I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.”
“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
“The body of scientific evidence supporting creation science is as strong as that supporting evolution. In fact, it may be stronger.... The evidence for evolution is far less compelling than we have been led to believe. Evolution is not a scientific fact, since it cannot actually be observed in a laboratory. Rather, evolution is merely a scientific theory or guess.... It is a very bad guess at that. The scientific problems with evolution are so serious that it could accurately be termed a myth.”
“If You Donâ€™t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.”
“I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.”
“My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.”

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