Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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To be dull is easy,
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I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.
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It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.
