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 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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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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'Life wasn't meant to be easy.'
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People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.
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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.
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Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.
