S. C. Gwynne Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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A mature science is governed by a single paradigm.
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When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.
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... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
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...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.
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In one sense, the Parkers are the beginning and end of the Comanches in U.S. history.
