John Henry Newman Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
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Some of my friends have urged me to tell people the basic story, but 'for God’s sake don’t mention the reptiles.'
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The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.
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If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.
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It is thy very energy of thoughtWhich keeps thee from thy God.
