I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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Achilles absent was Achilles still! ~Homer
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
#quotes #rainer-maria-rilke #writing #heart

We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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