Beth Henley Quotes
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
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I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
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I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
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She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.
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I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees.
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If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.
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My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds.
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
