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Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Alice Walker

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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

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Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

Rashida Jones

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

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When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

Heather Locklear

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If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Hugh Prather

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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay

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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

Madhuri Dixit

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In the game of 'Survivor', there is no time for regrets.

Jenna Morasca

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Giving back to the communities and institutions that helped us achieve success is a value we share and a privilege we embrace.

Dinesh Paliwal

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'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

Robert Fulghum

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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Orson Welles

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

Brad Henry

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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

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One thing I didn't think upon getting married: that my style would — or could — change.

Leandra Medine

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

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