Amelia Earhart Quotes
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Quotes to Explore
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.
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In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.
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We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they're your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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He wants quickness and explosion off the ball. He's a real up-tempo guy.
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I am opposed to textbooks ... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
