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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

Michelle Obama

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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Art Design Fashion Freedom History Music Poetry Time
just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Different Thinking Yourself
You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
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Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself
My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Heart Important Mom World
Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Feeling Goodness Hurt Relationship Right
We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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Act Explanation Inspirational
For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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Family Goal Live Marriage Myself
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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Failure Feeling Myself Plant Result Success
I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Ambitious Force Intellectual Love Myself Possible
The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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Believe Goal Live People Success
there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Effort Limitation Reward
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Challenge Change Easy Feeling Justice
Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance
Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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Collection Imperfection Memories Mindset
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself

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