Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski -
Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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Marriage advice to Dan Pfeiffer in Yes We Still Can, chapter 9, (19 June 2018); as quoted in 'Barack Obama says these are the three questions you must ask someone before you marry them', by Narjas Zatat, The Independent, (7 July 2018).
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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile
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Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!
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Of course I base my characters partly on the people I know-one can’t escape it-but fictional characters are oversimplified; they’re much less complex than the people one knows.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength and unconditional love. What this sprightly, silly, lovely woman did from the obscurity of a faded convent in Rust Belt Chicago was to fulfill in a passionate, tireless way the supreme commandment of Jesus' gospel every day of her life.
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The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
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The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls.
