Allison Winn Scotch Quotes
If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.
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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
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Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
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Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.
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Lots of people think that the Premier League would be good for me, but my mum is Spanish, and I really have that dream to play over there.
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A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.
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One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
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I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
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My hope is to be the first disabled swimmer on an able-bodied team at the Y Nationals.
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It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.
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If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?
