Sue Monk Kidd Quotes
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
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No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
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Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got
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It's been a flood area for quite a long time, but the floods are getting deeper and more frequent.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
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I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
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It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and try to learn - I don't like to learn from anybody. Later on I would, once I'd get the hang of things. Like I ride horses, I'm good at that, Western riding. I learned all about it reading and studying. I'm always learning about horses, I like that.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.
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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.
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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
