Christopher Morley Quotes
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform
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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.
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My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
