Anne Askew Quotes
I sat two long hours arguing with the Lord Chancellor, upon the bare floor… With many flattering words, he tried to persuade me to leave my opinion… I said that I would rather die than break my faith
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
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I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
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Just trying to buy me some time, then I remembered this magic trick - vocalizes the Inspector Gadget theme song, Go-Go-Gadget-Dick!
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
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It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
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And I know how he feels—it’s so good it hurts. I think I’m going to die from happiness. I think I’m going to die from pain. Time has stopped; time is racing.
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I sat two long hours arguing with the Lord Chancellor, upon the bare floor… With many flattering words, he tried to persuade me to leave my opinion… I said that I would rather die than break my faith
