Quote by Anne Lamott
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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. – Anne Lamott

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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. – Anne Lamott

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Hope
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You can safely assume that youve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott

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We cant understand when were pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time – like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. – Anne Lamott

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In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that. – Arsene Wenger

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You can have a certain arrogance, and I think thats fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others. – Steffi Graf

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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined. – Carlos Ghosn

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A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. – Joseph Conrad

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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I dont think itll happen – and thats fine. Its kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous. – Beth Ditto

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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Art lies by its own artifice. – Ovid

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. – Anatole France

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