Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.
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It is important to move, no matter slow or fast, just move ... if you move, you always move forward.
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A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
