Irene Dunne Quotes
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about Him, but to reach people and to inspire people.
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In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
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My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
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I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.
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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
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Deus est omnium rerum causa immanens, non vero transiens
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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
