Burt Shavitz Quotes
The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.
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During the season... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.
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There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.
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But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.
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A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
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The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.
