Susan Powter Quotes
The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
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I'm huge fan of 'Timeflies.'
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
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I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.
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I'm going to do my very best to ensure that our jobs are all market-competitive.
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The first time I got locked up, I was in Walmart stealing BB guns.
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Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
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I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
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I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
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Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
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If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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Bitterness kills the soul.
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The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
