Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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I love to go out. I love the outdoors. I love outdoor sports. I'm a big traveler.
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I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
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I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
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No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.
