Melody Beattie Quotes
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
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The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
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Yoga is the practice of radical transformation
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Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little extra and it is easy and safe to give, they do so. After all, God loves a cheerful giver, right?
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Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.
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Whatever is in that report ... there is no basis for beginning an impeachment proceeding.
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It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
