Mary Pipher Quotes
True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.
