Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

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• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

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• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

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• Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

  

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• Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism – and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.

  

  Lane Garrison
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• The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

  

  Dan Shechtman
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• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

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  • Trying
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• Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
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• I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.

  

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  • World
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• The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

  

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• If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  

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• When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.

  

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• Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

  

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• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

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• They were some of the best years of my life, and I'm so thankful I was able to go to Stanford.

  

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• My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!

  

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  • Home
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• A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
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• You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Erasing