Ada Limon Quotes
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
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I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
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I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
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'Doin' Fine' is a really special song because it's uplifting but really honest at the same time.
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
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Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.
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It's ignorance, and it's upsetting. Look at the young; they have no idea how great this country is because they never have been outside of it.
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Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
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When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.
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Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.
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As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.
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Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger’s palm.
