Michael Ramsey Quotes
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
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A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
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If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.
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Actors can be refined and be better. I’m an improved version of whatever you’ve seen earlier. I do not say this with arrogance, but it is my duty to be better than my predecessor and it’s my duty to see that my successor is better than me.
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Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.
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People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
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It feels good to be fit and strong.
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God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.
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This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
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I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
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There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
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Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.
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The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
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People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
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The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
