Carolyn Custis James Quotes
Everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I still have a young attitude.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'
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I kind of had to convince myself when I was playing for the Washington Freedom that this was the highest level that I'm going to reach. 'I'm going to be a professional player, and I'm going to try and be the best one I can be, but it's maybe just not in my cards to be an international player. I won't play in a World Cup.' That was hard for me.
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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
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Everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.
