Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.'
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When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
