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.
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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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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 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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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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The Ferguson Grand Jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown is a miscarriage of justice. It is a slap in the face to Americans nationwide who continue to hope and believe that justice will prevail.
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I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
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My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.
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It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing.
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It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.
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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.
