Ursula Goodenough Quotes
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell.
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One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
