Sister Parish Quotes
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
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Everything is real on me.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?
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I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
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If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.
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The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.
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My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.
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My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
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The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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When I'm close to the penalty area, that's where I feel more comfortable.
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I'm ready to encourage and support people on their journey because I've been encouraged and supported. I just hope I make people proud.
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I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.
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My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.
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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
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You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
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I grew up thinking my father was tacky. There was no color coordination. It was whatever was cool. 'These sweatpants are cool. I'll wear them with these shoes that are cool.' He had less inhibitions. I wasn't respectful of his swag then.
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Dad always says, 'The Yankees got all the records and we got the rings,'
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Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
