Abby Brammell Quotes
I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
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I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether such marriages are moral or immoral or whether they are something that should be encouraged or discouraged.... Quite simply, this case is about liberty and equality, the two cornerstones of the rights protected by the United States Constitution.
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We prefer to affirm civilization through logic and reason, not with the myopic, exclusionary bias and anti-intellectual fanaticism that have been the twin hallmarks of southern culture for going on parts of four centuries
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I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.
