Allen Lacy Quotes
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
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The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
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I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.
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If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.
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For me I feel close to the Savior when I can do in a small way for someone else, what He would do if He were there. In a way, that's what being an instrument in all about . . . to make it possible for His love to reach more of His children.
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You and I are cobbled out of carbon cells that were once other things entirely. We could have a carbon cell in one of our elbows that was once part of a trilobite's tail. Or a cell from Atilla the Hun's moustache in our eye. Or an ancient lotus petal in our tonsils.
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When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and the Gettysburg Address and much more, but not Lincoln's Second Inauguration, I challenged that omission and they said find something on it and to my astonishment, at that time, there was no book or long article that really did it. So I wrote one that attempted to do it justice. Although obscurely published, that essay got a nice bounce. Somehow David Donald saw it, and in his notes to his biography singled it out.
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Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.
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I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.
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Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.
