Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.
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I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
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I've never hurt a single person in my whole life - never even wanted to hurt someone.
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An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
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Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.
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The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.
