Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.
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Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.
