Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMAKids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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