Petra Collins Quotes

#1. I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Tom Morello

#2. With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That is how you create work. That's the role of the artist - to change the way you view things.

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#3. When the church is engaged in meaningful prayer, it becomes both the cause and the result of greater church health.

Thom S. Rainer

#4. God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.

Pat Swindall

#5. No successful business was ever made without someone taking a chance, no successful person got to where they are without taking risks, and no endeavor ever succeeded without people taking a gamble.

Stephen Richards

#6. You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things. You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.

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#7. My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.

Eli Manning

#8. Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.

Sarah Dessen

#9. I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

Debra Wilson

#10. Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#11. It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

Barbara Castle

#12. Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!

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#13. If a guy can't handle your crazy pictures, he's probably not someone you want in your life.

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#14. Despite Tub's eye wound he never so much as stumbled, and I felt for the first time that we knew and understood each other; I sensed in him a desire to improve himself, which perhaps was whimsy or wishful thinking on my part, but such are the musings of the traveling man. The

Patrick DeWitt

#15. I used to hate my hair. Now I love it. I spend hours brushing my hair out after it dries. I love it when it's big.

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#16. What did you do?" Fred asked. "There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it." "Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?" "But

James S.A. Corey

#17. When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper ... and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

L.M. Montgomery

#18. If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that? ...

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#19. It's one thing when you are photographing others, but when you are exposing yourself and your insecurities, that's the biggest risk. That's always scary.

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#20. With feminism social media just opened up its boundaries even more. Now all these different tribes of women can connect with each other, and also find each other if they're not living in the same city, or even if they are but they're not friends with the same people!

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#21. To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.

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#22. Not a man of habits, though he wished to be,

Lydia Davis

#23. Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.

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#24. I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.

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#25. We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

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#26. What's cool is when people send me messages or tag me in their photos, which definitely happens more after a project comes out. The best part, I think, is that the DMs and tags are always from young girls, and reaching them is the most important thing for me.

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