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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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Some people seem to understand this – that life and change take time – but I am not one of those people. – Anne Lamott

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: Id hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. – Anne Lamott

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Renown? Ive already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. – Jean Rostand

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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. – Gordon B. Hinckley

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I have so much respect for people in the theater. You cant do 10 or 15 takes. Its all live. Its like life in motion. – Puff Daddy

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