W. G. Grace Quotes
I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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I am dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
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Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.
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When I'm too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.
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Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.
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Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
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I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
