George A. Sheehan Quotes
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
Quotes to Explore
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.
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Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
