Peace Pilgrim Quotes
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
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Revolutionaries are not infallible.
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I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there.
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It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
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I would love to go do movies; I would love to kind of delve into other things. I did do acting and modeling before, when I was a kid, so it would be nice to use those things.
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Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.
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When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.
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My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.
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I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't.
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We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.
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One of my mentors was Patricia Schroeder, and one night she came to me on the floor and she said to me, "Why are we sitting in Congress, when a lot of women would try to do it and couldn't? Why are we here and others aren't?" And I thought back and said it was because my father believed in me and she said the same thing, she said her father believed in her and thought she could do anything.
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In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
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The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
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I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.
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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
