Emily Greene Balch Quotes
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.
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I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.
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In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
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Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
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Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
