Nell Newman Quotes
To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
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There's no alternative to Catalan independence.
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
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We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
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'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
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A company surrenders today's businesses when it gets smaller faster than it gets better. A company surrenders tomorrow's businesses when it gets better without getting different.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
Charles B. Rangel -
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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In wrath I strike, and set the dark ablazeWith the immortal spark of thought,By friction-process broughtOf concentrationAnd distraction.The darkness burnsWith a million tongues;And now I spyAll past, all distant things, as nigh.
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Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.
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To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.
