Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
Some people, when they’re hurt… they remember the challenge. They grab hold of the fire once, and when they’re burned, they make plans, trying to figure out how to hold live coals. That’s your mother. But some of us remember the pain.
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War is over if you want it.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.
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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
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Some people, when they’re hurt… they remember the challenge. They grab hold of the fire once, and when they’re burned, they make plans, trying to figure out how to hold live coals. That’s your mother. But some of us remember the pain.
