Christopher Dawson Quotes
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
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I can remember sittin' in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin' until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.
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We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
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Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
