Jan Karon Quotes
So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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People work hard.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
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When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.
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Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
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So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.