Jenn Lyon Quotes
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. … It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.
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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
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Clarence Darrow's examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes trial Scopes Trial Day 7
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.
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You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.
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All this pain. all this crying. it wasn't that she hadn't expected it. she just underestimated it. it felt like a heavy, dark blanket that had been pulled across all of them. she hadn't know that it would make it difficult to breathe. she hadn't guess that it would seem so enveloping. and so total, and so permanent.
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I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.
