Valerie Simpson Quotes
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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I live a normal life.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
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That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
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If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
