Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes
You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
