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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

~Abby Wambach

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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

~Abdullah Ii Of Jordan

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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

~Abdullah Ii Of Jordan

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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

~Abraham Verghese

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

~Aeschylus

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In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

~Al Roker

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When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

~Alastair Reynolds

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Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.

~Alexandra Fuller

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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.

~Alexandra Petri

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I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

~Alexis Denisof

Topics: Actor Burden Director Falls More Projects Script Shoulders Success Think I Think

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