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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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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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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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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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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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.
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Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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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.
