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Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.
Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.