Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination, He died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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I always knew I was going to make it, without doubt.
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If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
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You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
