Jerry Falwell Quotes
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
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People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.
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I remember my mother saying to me on one occasion, 'Mel, I know that I can count on you.' I resolved that she would always be able to count on me. I would not let her down. I loved her too much. Her confidence in me meant everything. Today I still feel that way. I feel that way about the Brethren. I don't ever want to let President Hinckley or any of the other leaders of the Church down. But, even more important, I never want to let the Savior down, because I love Him more than anything else.
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Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
