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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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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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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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.
