Frederick William Faber Quotes
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I am a just man.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
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We want people to continue learning new things about what space does to the human body. It's important for us to understand that and make sure when we get ready to fly to Mars that we are ready for what we're going to be exposed to.
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I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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Success is a great deodorant.
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Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.