J. Donald Walters Quotes
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.
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It is interesting to note that the Nobel Peace Prize won't be awarded this year. When one recalls that Martin Luther King got the prize last year, it may be just as well that the committee decided not to award one this year. Perhaps it was too difficult to choose between Stokely Carmichael and Ho Chi Minh.
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In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.
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People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
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It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
