Winifred Holtby Quotes
Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.
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I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.
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Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.
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The only way we are going to stop this disease is to raise money. Jimmy would go absolutely bananas to know how much money has been raised. We can't just sit back. This disease affects all of us.
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Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.
