Casey Converse (Keith Cawthon Converse) Quotes
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.
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One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
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There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.
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There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.
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Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
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If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.
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It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.
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I would say I'm blessed genetically, but I also don't restrict myself from any types of food.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.
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It sounds funny to say it, but when I was getting ready to try out, I was thinking that I really wasn't going to have to work that hard to be what I needed to be - flirtatious, outgoing, crazy and fun.
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I felt great! I'm ready to roll tonight!
