Mary Beth Whitehead Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time.
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There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.
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Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.
