Belle S. Spafford Quotes
I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I take my work seriously.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.
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In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
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Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
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I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.
