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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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 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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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.
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It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.
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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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The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.
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In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
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The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.
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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.
