Nancy Roman Quotes
I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
