Mark Shriver Quotes
Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.
Quotes to Explore
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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People trash talk me.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.
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I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.
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But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
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Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their loved ones. Family meant something. Spouses meant something.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.
