Amelia Barr Quotes
Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Time stays, we go.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.
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I love you: You imagine hearing the words from someone not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, someone you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest.
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When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
