Catherine Bramwell-Booth Quotes
Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I tried making films with messages. Now I’d rather send a text!
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.
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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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I wasn't especially a Broadway type. I liked film acting better. I didn't want to stay up late. I wasn't a smoker, a drinker, or a drug-taker. So that kind of Broadway life - not that that's what they do. But they do stay up late and hang out at Joe Allen's until 2 in the morning, and that just wasn't for me.
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The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.
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No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.
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Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
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Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best.
