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I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
— Marina Abramovic
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
— John Foxe
One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.
— Ava DuVernay
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
— Marilyn Monroe
Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.
— David Walton
As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
— Seth Godin
If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.
— Joyce Meyer
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
— Marilyn Monroe
I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
— Maya Angelou
I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.
— Nelson Mandela
Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
— Oprah Winfrey