Agnes Baker Pilgrim Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.
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There's got to be a change... and there's got to be a better way.
