Beatrice Sparks Quotes
I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love it! They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.
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NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!
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Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy . . . by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.
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I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.
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I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.
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I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.
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I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love it! They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
