Peace Pilgrim Quotes
You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship - whether we work together or apart.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I'm not politically correct.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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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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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
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But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
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Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world sticks together. We have great trust that it will.
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I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.
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You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship - whether we work together or apart.
