John Thorn Quotes
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Women drive box office.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'
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A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.
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It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'
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In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
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Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little... unjust.
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For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
