Elmer Davis Quotes
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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 want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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My parents are actors, and I'm the oldest of my siblings - I have three younger sisters and a brother who's my best friend. We're a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We're a rambunctious gang!
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I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child’s play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror.
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The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.
