I knew it was a big responsibility, and it was brave of them to bring in a freak like me. I really wanted to do it right. I wanted to encourage the teens to be whatever helps them stay alive in this mad, mad world. I wanted to encourage them not to be mean, and not let the bullies get away with being bullies.
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SIVASUBRAMANIAN We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like the... ALEX KINGSTON So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO Nilipozaliwa nilipendwa na kuogopwa, watu walicheza na mimi lakini mimi sikucheza nao. Niliwapenda. SIMON MASHALLA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, no... MARY ELLEN MARK The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo... CONSTANCE WU Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY A lot of times, I faced bullies - or the 'big dogs' at school. What I wanted 'Red Rising... PIERCE BROWN A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From th... RAM KAPOOR I was mad, real mad that he called stalling, and I just wanted to win. RAY WILLETTE It was not really the cool thing to do. I wanted to join to be different. EMILY BAUER The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right. OSCAR DE LA RENTA The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started p... MARY ELLEN MARK I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels go... SAMIRA WILEY The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI I tell them to be ready for anything. I encourage them to stay focused. MARK MEARS I wanted to be around a 4:50, but I was happy with this. Sometimes (being pushed) helps me. I probab... LEAH GINGRICH It was a big relief to get my first hit. I was there to play defense, but I wanted to be in a positi... JEFF FIORENTINO I went in to look at them, and what I decided to do was give them two or three changes in choreograp... PATRICIA WILCOX i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wante... RANDY HARRISON I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ... TONY HAWK I knew he was a skinny dude, so I wanted to use my body to my advantage and not let him get in the a... DEREK DENNIS Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I... OCTAVIA BUTLER I was doing what I wanted to do, ... I was making the records I wanted to make where and when I want... NEIL DIAMOND You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make peo... INA MAY GASKIN I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS All I wanted was for the people of Spokane to have a voice, ... My three months of — I call it my '... SHANNON SULLIVAN I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew t... TARA LYNNE BARR We wanted to get them back. It was payback time. I wanted them to feel the emotions I felt that day. CAROL DUNCAN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't... LISA MARIE PRESLEY To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these pe... D. A. PENNEBAKER Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enc... SADA THOMPSON When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just ... BRUNO TONIOLI A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to le... STEFANO LANGONE I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m... CHARLIE HADEN There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS I know for me personally (after Friday's game), I just wanted to come in and bring them energy. I wa... RALPH HOLMES How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER It was just me being a little more aggressive. I was in a little foul trouble in the first half and ... JOSH HOWARD I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anyb... DAVE CHAPPELLE How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
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We are here because what we want, who we love and how we feel has an effect on the amount of power w... KATE BORNSTEIN This is a rainbow of arts, activism, race, gender, age and class. KATE BORNSTEIN It is important to note that the relevant factor to sexual harassment in this story is not gender id... KATE BORNSTEIN I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are importan... KATE BORNSTEIN …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white. KATE BORNSTEIN And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won’t be the same you that ma... KATE BORNSTEIN Identities aren’t meant to be permanent. They’re like cars: they take us from one place to anoth... KATE BORNSTEIN S. BEAR BERGMAN Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively.. In c... DAVID BORNSTEIN Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. DAVID BORNSTEIN An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Ot... DAVID BORNSTEIN Why do people get back in the box ?,
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It shouldn't be this hard, and it s... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together! KATE The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together! KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
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May... KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep. KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
But the thou... KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May... KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things.
But whe... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
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Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther... KATE If water would be running up,
would it wash away the spots,
underneath the places, where we usually ... KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
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when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
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But whe... KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b... KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting. KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a... KATE If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual... KATE That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b... KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
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KATE KLISE As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytel... KATE KLISE The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking tr... KATE KLISE Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. KATE ADIE My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f... KATE DICAMILLO I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'... KATE DICAMILLO Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefo... KATE CLINTON Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le... KATE CLINTON When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out. KATE CLINTON Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one. KATE CLINTON I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry. KATE CHRISTENSEN Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik... KATE CHRISTENSEN I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin... KATE CHRISTENSEN The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo... KATE CHRISTENSEN On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they... KATE CHRISTENSEN I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply. KATE CHRISTENSEN In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti... KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce... KATE CHOPIN I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop. KATE JACKSON I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot. KATE HUDSON The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker. KATE HUDSON Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process. KATE HUDSON I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can el... KATE GRENVILLE I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have bee... KATE GREENAWAY Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was al... KATE GREENAWAY Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, act... KATE FORSYTH Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is ... KATE FORSYTH I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts a... KATE FORSYTH Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that someti... KATE FORSYTH When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and her... KATE FORSYTH