Wanda Koop Quotes
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.
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I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.
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I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.
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It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
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And in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.
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There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
