Beverly Jenkins Quotes
The common man need not ask because I am unavailable to him, but for a man who matches me in strength and purpose—there is no cost.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.
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Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.
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The common man need not ask because I am unavailable to him, but for a man who matches me in strength and purpose—there is no cost.
