James M. Barrie Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I actually hate shopping.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
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Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.
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Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.
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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
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If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.
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We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.
