Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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The world is always terrible.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.
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It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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These are places I would want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
