Adina Porter Quotes
I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
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Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
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Isn't Scientology one of those things where you really like someone and once you hear they're a Scientologist, you're like 'I'm out'?
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I've never hidden my Christianity in Hollywood, and I've been handled respectfully because I handle the issue and other people respectfully.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.
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I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.
