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• I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The Last Five Years. It's amazing how things come full-circle and how the community (once you hang around it long enough) grows smaller and smaller as it grows. Sharing the stage with these people is more than a dream come true it's so special. They're so warm and giving and offer the best advice. Sherie is very nice and maternal and nurturing.

  Tituss Burgess

  Dream, New York, Nice

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.

  Michael Franti

  Mother, Father, Wings

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they offer players the opportunity to explore, be creative, learn through interaction and express themselves to others. It is vitally important that we protect and nurture this new art form so that it can reach its full potential. Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.

  Will Wright

  Art, Opportunity, Player

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• My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much and I am willing to do this again if necessary.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Mother, Father, Democracy

  Inauguration speech of His Excellency Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines, at Quirino Grandstand in Manila (translated from Filipino), newsinfo.inquirer.net. June 30, 2010.

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• It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Growing Up, Opportunity

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• If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

  Sandra Scofield

  Mother, Self, Kind

  Sandra Scofield (2015). “More Than Allies”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

  Jeff Myers

  Caring, Adults, Mentoring

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• I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Spirit, Sexist

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Rebel, Machines

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1976.

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• What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Animal, Self

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• I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better.

  Lynn Povich

  Strong, Writing, Editing

  Lynn Povich (2012). “The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace”, p.179, PublicAffairs

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• So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

  Paul Weller

  Artist, Today, Next

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

  Peter Buffett

  Men, Force, Relation

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think it's a feminine energy, not necessarily men versus women, but a nurturing, mothering, loving energy. I think definitely. But I think you need a balance of both. I think right now we're just so in the extremes and people are just conditioned and given these gender assignments very early on.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview With Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

  Tori Amos

  People, Boards, Clear

  "Tori Amos Interview by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My interests lie in nurturing children. That's part of the reason why the bullying thing has become an aspect of my life. I was bullied a lot growing up. I know firsthand the amount of life that is sucked out of you every time that happens, and how it affected me as a young adult.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Bullying, Children, Growing Up

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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  Love is more than a word to me. It's something that I see and feel in the people around me that makes me believe it and feel loved. It's nurturing and unconditional. It is consistent and reliable.

  Avril Lavigne

  Believe, Love Is, People

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• A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Children, Race, Focus

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.

  Zicheng Hong

  Spring, Snow, Taoism

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• I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

  Susan Faludi

  Special, Quality, Cooperatives

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free.

  Deborah Day

  Self Esteem, Goal, Feels

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• Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Love Is, Self

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• Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Bears

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• In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.

  Virginia Satir

  Hurt, Jobs, Children

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• If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this in excess weight or other physical problems. Express yourself directly. Set clear boundaries with other people and do what you need to do to take good care of yourself. Energy will then move freely through your body and this circulation will dissolve any excess weight. The more you are willing to be yourself, the less you'll need to use food as a substitute nurturer. You will be receiving the natural nurturing of the universe.

  Shakti Gawain

  Being Yourself, Moving, People

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