Merle Shain Quotes
The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplished, and I look up to her. She had a mother's sense to her.
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What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
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I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
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It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.
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There is absolutely zero doubt that you can technically do an excellent full-featured FPS game, because these devices are more powerful now than, like, a previous generation Xbox.
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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
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Everything I've performed has been from my own head.
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I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.
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The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.
