Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.
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I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
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I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.
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Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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You can assume that the leaf you see let go of a branch and fall towards the ground has never been considered by any being but yourself. Catch it in your hand - or, even better, keep walking until one falls into your reach naturally - and it will have spent its whole time on the planet without ever touching the ground, only because of you.
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So that’s that, Barney said to himself. I violated Rule One of career-oriented functioning: never tell your superior something he doesn’t want to hear.
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I can't speak or write German, but I'am overjoyed because I have bought one of your pictures. Now it is in me. I write music. You are my teacher.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
