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fighting thinking community
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval. Archie Panjabi
fighting challenges tasks
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds. Jane Hamilton
fighting pigs choices
I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way. Cloris Leachman
fighting second-chance years
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. Bobby Scott
fighting fights-and-fighting job lost mouth shot shut
When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger. Jeff Rawls
fighting soldier i-can
While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them Clara Barton
fighting self people
I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how they dressed, talk how they talked, do whatever they were into. This led to a period of drugs and anchohol. When his family gave him an ultimatum to get clean or they'd report him to the police Corey said, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, "I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this. Cory Monteith
fighting light battle
Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself. Cory Booker
fighting blow people
And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world- unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die. e. e. cummings
government role steer work
The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us. Joe Lhota
government supposed
I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.
government
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. Elfriede Jelinek
government firsts students
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. Calvin Coolidge
government
Government just simply can't do everything for everyone. Jan Brewer
government
Ethics in government has always been important to me.
government israeli minister prime ruling speak time
first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to give in on Jerusalem. It is the first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to have, I would say, another government ruling -- I speak about the Palestinians -- in Jerusalem. Ariel Sharon
government power powers
We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong. Larry Craig
government america drug
I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Bernie Sanders
people stuff thinks weeks ya
People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'
people talk
People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money, John Abraham
people per rest sure year
People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week. David Mann
people
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed. Ruth Rendell
people tea
People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat. Pam Brown
people republican resources run view worry
People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding. Ed Rollins
people understand
People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.
people understand water
People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge. John Waters
people technology throw
People don't throw out technology for no reason.