Jay DeMarcus Quotes
My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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'Perhaps our reservoir of spiritual faith has run out.''Perhaps it should have run out a long time ago,' I said sternly. 'Superstition has taken a terrible toll on our species. Wars...pogroms...resistance to logic and science and medicine...not to mention gathering power in the hands of people like those who run the Pax.'
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I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!
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Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.
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Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
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My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.
