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“One always finds time for what one likes.”
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“I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.”
Source : "Playing Dead". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.backstage.com. January 10, 2011. 
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“Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.”
Source : Song: Vienna, Album: The Stranger, 1977
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“I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup”
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“The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.”
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“The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.”
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“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.”
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“Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.”
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“It is said that this is a man's world, and sometimes, it is. For every casket girl that was saved, countless others were not. But women are more resilient than given credit for. And some women, well, let's just say their oppressors had better watch out. I, too, am resilient, and I'm tired of being oppressed.”
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“Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.”
