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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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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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
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I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers.
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I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.
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I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.
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Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.
