Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect - connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.
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If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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The world, in truth, is a wedding.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
