Stephen Hadley (Stephen John Hadley) Quotes
Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
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Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.
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I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.
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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.
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Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.
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When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if I don't believe in them anymore, I'll stop singing that song.
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I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
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I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.
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Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life.
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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
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The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.
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I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
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I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.
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I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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We are each other's destiny.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.
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Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
