Sue Monk Kidd Quotes
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.
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The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
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Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls. (p.128)
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
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In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
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When you're an actress - or just a woman - a lot of the exercise classes that are offered are so sort of male gaze-skewed. It's all working out for the beach and not for function at all.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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No victor believes in chance.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
