John Wesley Shipp Quotes
I think that whole aura of marriage and family is desirable, especially when you're involved in this kind of business. You want that security in your personal life.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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I'm in an interracial marriage.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.
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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.
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I think that whole aura of marriage and family is desirable, especially when you're involved in this kind of business. You want that security in your personal life.
