Maureen Forrester Quotes
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
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Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
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You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
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I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
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The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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O faciles dare summa deos eademque tueridifficiles!
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.
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If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.
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Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
