Alexander MacLaren Quotes
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
Gabrielle Union
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Daniel De Leon
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Ram Dass
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The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.
Magdi Yacoub
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
Barbara Boxer
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
Laura Harring
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
T. J. Perkins
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Barber Conable
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
Kara Lindsay
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
Vin Scully
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
Ralph Fiennes
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
Camille Paglia
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
Ranbir Kapoor
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
Lady Gregory
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It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.
Bethany Hamilton
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A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.
Pope Francis
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I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.
Joanna Russ
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Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
Earl Nightingale
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Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.
Alexander MacLaren