Abigail Padgett Quotes
Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
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Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.
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A politicalized monopoly, however, is absolute. Every competitive influence is removed by force. Even abstinence on the part of the public is no threat, since every drop in revenue can be offset by a tax levy. The power of taxation removes the necessity of rendering service.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
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When I read in US Weekly the other day that she was fifty-nine, ... I was like, 'whoa, dude, no way she's old enough to be my mother.' Being with somebody that old is like committing incest, only you're not related.
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I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.
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Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
