Mark Shriver Quotes
Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Love is a state of being.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Novels are longer than life.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.
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Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
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Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.
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Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
