Ann Spangler Quotes
Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.
Quotes to Explore
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
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The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.
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Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.
