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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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or little, inside or outside, wet or dry, good or bad, boy or girl, man or woman.
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If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
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Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.
