I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now. — Kerri Walsh

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You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place. ― Criss Jami

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I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter Hall's production of 'Don Giovanni' there in 1975 or 1976. - Richard McCabe

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. —Mark Twain

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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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I love hearing educated people speak and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice. — Zendaya

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Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path. — Katherine Wolf

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We work to become, not to acquire. — Elbert Hubbard

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