Mark Shriver Quotes
I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
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Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.
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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
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Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
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I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
