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• I believe I accepted the first hit of crack because I am an addict, and that's what addicts do. There was nothing extraordinary going on in my life at the time - nothing beyond the normal pressures and ups and downs that all people face. I did not believe I would be hooked. I think that is probably true of most addicts and alcoholics. I haven't met anyone yet who said he or she took their first hit or drink knowing or even suspecting they would drink alcoholically or become addicted.

  Ruben Castaneda

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.

  Lennox Lewis

  Winning, Men, Boxing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If guilt tells us that we've done something wrong, then shame tells us that we are something wrong. So many people feel isolated, not good enough, defined by the labels they wear rather than the identity they have in Christ. The love of Christ tells us that we're accepted; that we belong.

  Sheila Walsh

  People, Not Good Enough, Guilt

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations in this area provoke contradictions, especially in a society like ours, because Cuba has so many revolutionary processes.

  Mariela Castro

  Innovation, Identity, Revolutionary

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Struggle, College, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing is very limited. What we have is good, but it's limited. There's not enough engagement with the world. Our literature's not adventurous enough. The influence of MFA writing tends to make things repetitive. The idea that writing can be taught has changed the whole conversation in the U.S.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Writing, Thinking, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I like when the manuscript keeps its authentic style and form, so even if I have accepted some advice from editors, I don't really want to adapt the manuscript to the needs and expectations of the readers.

  Lidija Dimkovska

  Expectations, Advice, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Something that I wanted to do through the film is try to explore the roots of belief, because everything has to do with beliefs. When I studied the side of the rationalists and the skeptics, and the side of the believers and so-called psychics, I found out that both of them, no matter what they claim to do, behave in a very similar way. They only accepted what confirmed their previous positions, and tended to reject everything that put them at risk.

  Rodrigo Cortes

  Risk, Trying, Belief

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Real, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a few versions of the Alexander movie on video, only two that matter. One is from 2007, and then the one from 2014. It's called "the Ultimate Cut." That is the best version in my opinion. I was unsatisfied with the original theatrical release. It was rushed. It was my fault. I accepted it. I always felt it should have been done the way Tarantino did Kill Bill. I thought, we should release this in two parts with an intermission. But at that time, in 2004, it was impossible.

  Oliver Stone

  Cutting, Done, Opinion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Thinking, Giving, Creative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's hard to know how many rank-and-file nineteenth-century church members accepted the idea that Jesus was married to multiple women and fathered children, but the idea received support from many high-ranking leaders, including Brigham Young and Joseph F. Smith.

  John Turner

  Jesus, Children, Support

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Number one: They're trying to please whoever signed them to a contract. Number two: They're trying to appease a gigantic audience and they get this false magnification of love. I came from a thing which nowadays would be the exception to the rule. I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. Which made me look at everything else as procedure.

  Chuck D

  Mother, Father, Love You

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview With Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does Dutch turn to Anglo-Saxon and eventually English? Morphology is actually taking place through things like Twitter or GChat today, where we're changing how things are spelled, and those spellings are accepted as standard now. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

  Jimenez Lai

  Today, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Ever since 9/11, the mood has changed quite a bit, and for the worst. The main cause for this change are the merchants of fear, who want to make us believe that Muslims are the new evil. By hammering on the assumption that all Muslims are terrorists who try to destroy the American society, they make people feel so very scared that some have accepted any kind of freedom-lessening measure, as long as it makes people feel less unsafe. That's not only the case in the U.S., the same goes for Europe.

  G.W. Sok

  Believe, Long, People

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• After 9/11, we had this "terrorist-Muslim-threat" in the US but at the same time, next to that, in Holland we had this growing awareness that the so-called integration of new Dutch people, a lot of those that had come to live and work in our country originated from countries such as Turkey and Morocco, and a lot of them are actually Muslim, wasn't quite the success the state always had thought it was. The "new" Dutch didn't feel totally accepted, treated as second-rate citizens, and parts of the "old" Dutch suddenly believed that the new ones were trying to destroy our society.

  G.W. Sok

  Country, People, Trying

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• I remember very clearly when I found my first soulmate, it was actually in my late 20s, that wonderful feeling of being accepted by people.

  Kim Longinotto

  Soulmate, People, Feelings

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• I was always considered the athletic one, and that translated into big. I was the big one. Thankfully, so many more body types are accepted these days. What I've been trying to do, and I'm seeing more now with my girlfriends, too, is celebrate other people.

  Brooke Shields

  Girlfriend, People, Athletic

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• In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Spirit, Language, Certain

  "Michelle Bachelet ready to tone down language on UN women proposals" by Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2013.

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• In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

  Joe Biden

  Style, World, Emotion

  "Biden Joins Campaign for the Presidency". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1987.

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• I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Negative, Able, Hanging Out

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• In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Order, Advantage

  "Constructing Futures: Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction". Book by Paul Chan, Rachel Cooper, p. 105, December 8, 2010.

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• Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

  Bono

  Fire, Flames, Needs

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• I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Wish, Care, Being Accepted

  "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.

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