Vera Farmiga Quotes
Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
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Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
