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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier…
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying…
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I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one…
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I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even…
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My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three…
— Paule Marshall
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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,…
— Tobias Wolff
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan,…
— J. Cole
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When I was a little kid, I told stories.
— Stephen Tobolowsky
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From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel…
— Lynn Collins
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From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended…
— Charles Frazier
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My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
— Cornelia Funke
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I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.
— Art Alexakis
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