Beth Revis Quotes
Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict,' ... 'we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.
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On Global Warming, in response to Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General James Milkey's correction of Scalia's reference to the stratosphere: Troposphere, whatever. I told you before I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
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Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
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Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
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The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me.
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I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.
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For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.
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Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.
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Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others.
