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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.
If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations
I have bobby pins everywhere.
It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.
Standardized tests don't care if you're white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course material. At the end of the day, all it cares about is whether you know what you're supposed to know. It can't be cheated, bent, or bargained with.
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.
A poet could kill the dead.
When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.
My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
The eye--it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will.
Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.
Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.
My approach in general is to take really great care of my skin, but I try not to overdo it and not use too many crazy products.
