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Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Books Brilliant Conventions Defy Generic Veronica Write

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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Bad Bad Weather Defy Face Joy Masters Only Sorrow Storm Us Weather

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When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Amazing Clear Come Defy Description Easy Fabulous Family Kids Law Law School Lenient Many Me Mom One Thing Others Parents Produce Professor School Situations Some Strict Students Teaching Them Thing Tiger Ways Yale Years

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I love doing action. Since I'm not 21, there's some, 'Let me get to the gym so I can do it.' But I love to defy expectations.

~Angela Bassett

Topics: Action Defy Doing Expectations Get Gym Love Me Since Some I Love I Can

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Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.

~Anthea Turner

Topics: Anybody Baggage Been Bit Defy Feel Felt God House Isolated Knowing Makes Rejected Though Upset Walked You

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I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

~B. D. Wong

Topics: Ability Acknowledge Affect Be Yourself Careful Conforming Defy Deny Else Everyone Fear Find Ideas Labels Like Live Me Reject Respond Someone Take Toll Up Who You Young Your Yourself

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We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

~Ben Foster

Topics: Art Away Defy Distance Experience Fear Identify Live Meditation Ourselves Present Put Source Spirituality Them Things Thought Way Web

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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.

~Brian Chesky

Topics: Becoming Children Defy Dream Editing Grow Happens Ideas Imagination Imaginations Late Older Our Physics President Santa Santa Claus Something Start Stay Then Up Vivid Waiting

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When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy the logic that somehow these things don't fit in the same musical well.

~Bryce Dessner

Topics: Bands Covering Dead Defy Equal Fit Grateful Grateful Dead Learned Logic Musical Part Play Same Somehow Things Underground Velvet Well Were Would

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Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Company Corruption Defy Disease Failing Fighting Hardest Indeed Just Makes Marriage Needed Problems Rebuilding Remedies Surgery Tackling Things Whether Worse

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