Michelle Shocked Quotes
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
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We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
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Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.
Dito Montiel
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The biggest of the big ideas that guided the strategy during the surge was explicit recognition that the most important terrain in the campaign in Iraq was the human terrain - the people - and our most important mission was to improve their security.
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Don't tell me peace has broken out.
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Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.
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Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.
