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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley

Education, Government, Help

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
Harvey Fierstein

Perceived, Roles

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Lady Gaga

Live, Reality, Between

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Chuck D.

Love, Black, Through

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells

Great, True, May

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton

Work, Politics, Good

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski

Alone, Spiritual, Show

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sorrow, Happier, Crown

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
Mary J. Blige

Music, Power, Strength

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Control, Everyone, Means

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
Richard M. Nixon

Nation, Direction, Influence

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara de Angelis

Life, Love, Experience

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Doug Coupland

Good, Crisis, Spiritual

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats

Truth, Silent, Gift

I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Best, Beautiful

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Anton Chekhov

Happy, Everything, Works

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Greater, Senses

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
Ovid

Morning, Before, Three

All truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel Butler

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler

Try, Old, Nation

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
Brandon Lee

Life, Everything, Small

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
Donald Rumsfeld

Life, Time, May

There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.
Jimmy Fallon

Love, Smart, Someone

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus

Happiness, Choice, Effort

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams

Women, Best, Car

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult

Gay, Nothing, Different

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

Trust, Somebody, Deceive

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
Rita Dove

Life, Complaints, Instead

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
LeBron James

Hope, Home, Mom

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.
Chris Evans

Life, Seen, Sunset

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