Abigail Johnson Quotes
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
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I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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In such a globally connected world, musicians now have the unique opportunity to express all of the cultural 'mash ups' we are experiencing these days. Akin to the blend of cultures that occurred in early 20th-century New Orleans that led to the birth of jazz, I believe that the world has reached a similar cultural turning point.
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When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.
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Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
