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Angela Bassett quote: "I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given..."

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

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I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’. Robert Fulghum
The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more. Jody Watley
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. Simone Weil
George M. Humphrey quote: "You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for..."
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. George M. Humphrey
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it,..."
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. Friedrich Nietzsche
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. Charles Hodge
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote: "The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to..."
The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. Jane Austen
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they..."
Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths. Friedrich Nietzsche
For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to pay ... I repel fear. If I had to pay I would pay, after all, the memory of ecstasy while pungisse its pain could never be erased. Frank Harris
Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.' Miranda Lambert
Clare Boothe Luce quote: "But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give..."
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain. Clare Boothe Luce
Andrew Cohen quote: "There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life."
There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life. Andrew Cohen
Owen Hart quote: "It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not..."
It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can. Owen Hart
One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world. Aldous Huxley