Mary Barnett Gilson Quotes
Education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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I'm a Brad Pitt fan as an actor. I don't necessarily think he's good-looking. If I tell you guys who I think are cute, they're lame people. Like, I think Harry Connick Jr. is so cute. In 'Hope Floats' or 'P.S. I Love You,' isn't he the cutest? Yeah, he is. I think Gerard Butler is 'Oh, my God.'
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You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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Religion can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than education can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.
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Education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.
