Jessica Tandy Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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I don't know if I'm brave.
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History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
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After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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Every fight and every loss taught me something.
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.
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Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
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I would not like young people to ask this question, why were we born at all. I want them to ask every kind of question but for them to question why they have been born to a situation which does not assure them of their right to dignity and to freedom from want and from fear, that is not the kind of question I would want anyone to ask.
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I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.
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It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
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All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.
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You are richer for doing things.
