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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#bad #character #choose #defines #gift

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#i #important #love #me #older

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#arguing #been #globalization #gravity #laws

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#build #cannot #every #every step #globalization

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#finally #hope #human #human race #i

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#bite #blood #doing #horrified #hurts

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. ↗

— Dario Argento

#adored #always #apart #audiences #did

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ↗

— Aristotle

#desire #equalize #getting #lower #more

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did. ↗

— Alan Arkin

#analyze #certain #certain things #did #eight

I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#consequences #games #i #i think #into