V. Raymond Edman Quotes
Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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You do a deal - business deal, real estate deal, stock deal - protect yourself at all times. I got that from boxing. That's from A to Z: that covers everything in life. And it started when I heard it in the ring. They don't say that in basketball or football or any other sport that I know of but boxing.
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If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
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Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.
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Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.
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Most of my family are good athletes.
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Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.
