Saint Augustine Quotes
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.
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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
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There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
