Molly Shannon Quotes
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.
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I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.
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I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
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Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.
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You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.
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I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.
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But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
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I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
