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" When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though. "

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" I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form. "

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" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "

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" School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals. "

" Courage is knowing what not to fear. "

" There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger. "

" Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. "

" Life is to be entered upon with courage. "

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" Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. "

" In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable. "

" It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. "

" Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. "

" Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. "

Dale Carnegie

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" Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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" Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. "

" Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. "

" Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. "

" It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. "

Steve Buscemi

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" We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it. "

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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" Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. "

" There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions. "

" Courage in danger is half the battle. "

" I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. "

" There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society. "

" Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. "

" If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try. "

" Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. "

" And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. "

" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "

" Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. "

" I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. "

Steve Buscemi

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