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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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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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
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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.
