Debby Ryan Quotes
All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.
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If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'
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The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here?
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All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
