Amelia Barr Quotes
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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I'm totally a geek.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you...
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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.
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If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
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All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
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Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.
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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
