Charles Sheehan-Miles Quotes
Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show.
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.
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My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
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All men are born equally free.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.
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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.
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We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.
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The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.
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Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.
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I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show.
