Francis of Assisi Quotes
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
Quotes to Explore
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
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I'm the girliest girl you'll ever meet.
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Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
