Jane Rule Quotes
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
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I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
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I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.
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And to get that much talent in the show-and to keep it constant and consistent-I think is a remarkable feat.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt very close to the people at the label after all this time or that they understood what we were trying to do. I don't have any regrets, because at the time we signed with Geffen, it was the right thing to do.
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You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
