James Lane Allen Quotes
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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A woman's health is her capital.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
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There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
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It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
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The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
