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• So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Smart, Thinking

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• The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, War, Mean

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• Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Believe, Kids, Hard Work

  "X Factor culture fuelled the UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith" by Patrick Wintour and Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to be seen by anyone. In a similar way, rowing practices are our sketchbooks, where we prepared our raceday masterpiece.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Practice, Ideas

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• Life was meant to be happy.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Simple Life, Were Meant To Be

  Neale Donald Walsch (2009). “The Conversations with God Companion: The Essential Tool for Individual and Group Study”, p.298, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Moving, Yoga

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• I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

  Carson McCullers

  Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Without You, Meant To Be Alone

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Proud, Today

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• Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

  James Paul Gee

  Needs, Eating, Mating

  James Paul Gee (2005). “Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul: Pleasure and Learning”, p.29, Common Ground

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• Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

  Jandy Nelson

  People, Stories

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• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

  Janet Malcolm

  Character, Ideas, Greek

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, March 20, 1989.

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• Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Jobs, Real

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• And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Useless, Chaos, Forget

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• Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

  Susan Estrich

  Moving, Time To Move On, Action

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• I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always...whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way - the way the world is meant to be. Think of that and then try to do His way.

  Jean Vanier

  Truth, Fall, Thinking

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• Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

  Brad Bird

  Thought Provoking, Levels, Looks

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• A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Christian, Responsibility, Creator God

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.

  Steve Aylett

  Fashion, Book, Reading

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• Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Moon, Men, Animal

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

  Hilary Duff

  Inspirational, Running, Giving Up

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• Some things were never meant to be recycled.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Politics, Recycled, Some Things Are Meant To Be

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• When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing...you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

  Gary Zukav

  Doing You, Were Meant To Be, Engaged

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• Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Special, Were Meant To Be

  Song: Dear Landlord, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

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• Ask yourself: Does the job touch my heart and feed my soul? You will never be what you were meant to be if you aren't having fun.

  Suzy Welch

  Jobs, Fun, Heart

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• Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

  Ann Beattie

  Falling In Love, Were Meant To Be, Place And Time

  Interview with Neila C. Seshachari, www.weber.edu. December 28, 1989.

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