Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes
The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
Quotes to Explore
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
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I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
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In Hollywood especially, if you're gay and conservative, it's worse to be a conservative in the gay community than it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.
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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems
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Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
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My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
