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In my own one-woman show, 'Feeling Good,' I talk about my childhood and write a letter to my younger self in the show. The most important thing I would tell her is to trust my instincts. Just trust them. They're little whispers from God, I think. You've heard it a million times, but it's true: Listen to that inner voice. LaChanze
God Good You Trust Feeling Important Own Think Inner Voice Tell Would About One-Woman My Own Voice Write Self True Feeling Good Instincts Most Talk Most Important Thing Important Thing Heard Times Listen Childhood Just The Most Important Little Them Younger Show Letter Her Thing Million Inner Million Times
Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self? Laeta Kalogridis
Natural Treat Car Will Carelessness Our Resources Those Worst Indifference More Self Instincts Like Becomes How Itself Very Than Repository Human Just Human Beings Just One Fancy Natural Resources Body Beings
The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last. Larry Brilliant
Life Finite Point Self Identifying Transcend Things Last
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships. Laura Linney
People Behavior Sense Relationships Find About Self Make How Effects Interesting Choices
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is our relationship to history? What are we blind to? What evils are lurking under the smooth surface of the self? - through radical dislocations. Laura van den Berg
Best Relationship History You Trust Radical Our Secrets Evils Cost Horror Through Self Blind Genre Smooth Surface Questions Human Central Who Lurking Poses
I had a corporate job and wore a suit to work every day, and I just kind of felt like I wasn't living my authentic self or doing what I was passionate about. Lauren Gibbs
Work Day Every Day Job Living Every Corporate Kind About Self Had Like Felt Doing Passionate Authentic Authentic Self Just Just Kind Wore Suit
I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success. Lauren Greenfield
Success Culture Long Looking Kind Dream Self Consumerism Between House Also Ultimate Been American American Dream Being Interested Connection Expression
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse. LeRoy Neiman
Better Old Ambition Own Worse Intractable Stayed My Own Self Attitudes Always Still Tune Old Self
Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self. Lee Siegel
You People Think Everyone Responsibilities Seems Thriving Self Develop Come Being Fantasy Fleeing Who Why
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. Leigh Hunt
Great History Woman Sacrifice Self Self-Sacrifice Belong
Somebody could look at me and go, 'She's dressed black,' or 'She's behaving in the stereotypical way of a black lesbian.' But this is how I feel most comfortable. This is my authentic self. I want the freedom to be that regardless of how someone interprets it. Lena Waithe
Freedom Me Black Somebody Lesbian Way Dressed Someone Could Self Feel Stereotypical Look Most She Comfortable How Go Authentic Authentic Self Behaving Want Regardless
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument. Leon Kass
Life Generation Long Argument Possible Self Longer Devoted Well-Being Covet Much Next Next Generation
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self. Lewis Thomas
Self-Respect Opportunity Will Naked Sense Monstrous Say Wildly Fuse Seem Touch Given Hybrid Divide Self New Well Sources Yeast Conditions Chicken Cell Any Cells Lacking Different Then Now Right Progeny Two
Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self. Lewis Thomas
Long Giving Else Everything Everything Else Alive Independent Running Something Having My Self Individual Absolutely Self Name Real Celebrated Real Name Suspected Place Separate
Men with style are great because they have a sense of self. Lexa Doig
Great Men Style Sense Self Because
To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it. Linda Blair
Spiritual Say Outlook Self Unsettling Least Very Ignore Profound
In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even. Linus Roache
You Job Own Self End Role In The End Certain Aspects Your Even Playing
I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise and who wouldn't recognise her younger self. Lionel Shriver
Woman Become Recognise Would Self Terrified Up Maturing Younger Who Growing Whom Growing Up Her
I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.' Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Myself Mirror Self Catching Like Because Oh
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. Lisa Unger
Alone Business Writing Long Imagination Writer Self Road Novel Travels
I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip. Liz Phair
Me Think Too Took Out Self Hip Role Trying Did Being Break Suburbs Cool Whole Played
Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding something greater that connects all of us. Gospel music is about tapping into that. Lizz Wright
Music Church Singing Gospel Music Approach Finding About Something Self Idea Gospel Greater Tapping Very Different Transcending Different Approach Us Much Connects
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror. Logan Pearsall Smith
Life People Thought Mirror Before Live Others Outside Self Feel Faint Public Themselves Bright Grows Flourish Imagined
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. Lois Lowry
You Writing Own Schedule Self Employment Make Your
When I came out, it wasn't a big formal conversation like in the movies. I just started living as my true and authentic self and opened up my life to my parents - sharing who I was, and bringing a girlfriend when I came home for a visit. To my great surprise, my parents accepted me for who I was and have supported me since. Lori Lightfoot
Life Home Great Me Conversation My Life Parents Big Living Visit Out Girlfriend Self Sharing True Supported Opened Since Like Accepted Came Surprise Up Authentic Authentic Self Just Formal Movies Who Bringing Started
I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion. Louise Post
Destructive My Self Self Instincts Opinion Doing Anyone Anything
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