Joey Lauren Adams Quotes
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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I can never find the right bras.
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When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
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My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
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I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick.
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
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Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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Winning starts with beginning.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
