J. Allen Boone Quotes
The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
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Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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What I did was permitted. My emails went to state.gov accounts. I did what I did, and I've said that it was a mistake. I've tried to do the best I could to get that information out to people.
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Even with the darkest and most distressing subjects in movies there's always going to be humour not far away, just under the surface. And it does help otherwise we'd just get ourselves into a massive trough of depression if there wasn't humour just around the corner.
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The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
