Amanda McRaney Jenkins (A.M. Jenkins) Quotes
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
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I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
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Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
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When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits.
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.
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You were uncomfortable in your own skin you were thirsty but mostly you were beautiful If we were our paranoias I'd be joining you if we were our incomes If we were our obsessions If we were our afflictions i'd be joining you
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Poetry is a form of necessary speech.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
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When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a frustrated musician for a little bit.
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When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.
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When I was at N.Y.U., I studied abroad in Prague, and I learned about some of the European animators, like Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Barta. I didn't think at the time that I would end up doing anything like that, but I certainly thought it was very cool.
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In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
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O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
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The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
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Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.
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I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.
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An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
