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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
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But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
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When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
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When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
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She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.
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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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No one expected you to amount to much, she told me. Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
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We're stronger than we realize.
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I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
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