Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Quotes
Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
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We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.
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No person under eighteen years of age should be allowed to take any vow or long-term commitment in association with Opus Dei.
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As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
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Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God.
