Bernadette Roberts Quotes
In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that’s weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.
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You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.
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It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.
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A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.
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Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain.
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When I was young I used to listen to everything.
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In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
