Annie Chapman Quotes
Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.
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American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.
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People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.
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I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.
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These candidates are all beholden to these super PACs.
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I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
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It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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Our choice of partners is perhaps the clearest single statement of our choice of values. Therefore, when we blame our partner for anything, we should really be confronting ourselves. Not as in 'Yes, I made a bad choice,' but as in 'How does this choice reflect my values?'
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Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.
