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'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 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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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
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The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
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I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world.
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I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
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Trifles make the sum of life.
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What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.
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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.
