Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Quotes
Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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We used to listen to Lionel Barrymore do 'A Christmas Carol' on the radio long ago, and I like Reginald Owen, who played Scrooge in the first treatment for the screen. But my favorite Scrooge was Alastair Sim. He was enchanting, an absolutely beautiful performance.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.
