Nancy Mairs Quotes
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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'I'm not - the terrific guy you keep telling me about. I'm not made of sugar and spice and everything nice. I'm made of rats and snails and puppy-dogs tails. I lie sometimes. I have broken people's hearts. I'm looking for love, I'll admit that, but now that it's here in abundance, I'm afraid of commitment and I want you, please, to leave me.'
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A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.
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[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.
