John Shelby Spong Quotes
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.
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I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
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I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
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But you know, my mom having to go to the hospital seven times... like passed out because of pain... I wouldn't come home and sit with my family and be with my dad - I'd call someone up and... I'd go and get obliterated drunk and I'd go, like, on two-week benders.
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
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We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
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I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
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I am a child of the 21st century.
