Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
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That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
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I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.
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If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. 'How' is always more important than 'what.' See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.
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We're not talking light-hearted foolishness here - when we go for stupid we go for BIG STUPID - like people who shoot at you on the freeway, or the Rambos and Rambo-ettes who blow people away in shopping malls and fast-food restaurants with automatic weapons.
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I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
