Bishop Briggs (Sarah Grace McLaughlin) Quotes
Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren't afraid of imperfection.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be.
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I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.
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That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
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Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren't afraid of imperfection.
