Darryl Glenn Quotes
I have a track record of going out and talking to my constituents and then standing up and representing them. That's what people want.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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I have a track record of going out and talking to my constituents and then standing up and representing them. That's what people want.
