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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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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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 eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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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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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.
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I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.
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You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.
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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.
