Celia Rivenbark Quotes
And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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Music is organized sound.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
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The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
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All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
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I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.
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And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.
