Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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The world absolutely needs your voice.
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Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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