Gene Tierney Quotes
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How lucky am I?
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
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[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
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Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
