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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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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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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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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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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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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'Life' in this 'society' being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of 'society' being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.
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If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.
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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
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Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.
