Miriam Toews Quotes
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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My private life stays private.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.
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My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Thought is just not something objective in our heads. Thought is power – real, objective power. Moreover, the thoughts we create have a life of their own. They have a kind of material reality that affects other people for good or ill – hence our responsibility to chose.
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You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?
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The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
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I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.
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I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
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I want to win a national championship; that's been my dream since I was a child.
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I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
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Some days, the first coffee just laughs at you. It says, 'Oh, you think I'm going to wake you up? Sucker.'
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While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
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Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.
