Jan Karon Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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People take things so seriously.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.
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I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.
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My grandmother valued her Southern roots, folk culture, and healing.
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In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.
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Be patient? That's all you've got for me?" Steve complained ten minutes later. Kylie glanced up at Perry, circling them as they sat behind the office, and then frowned at Steve. "I don't know why everyone thinks I'm the love guru.
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My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
