Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
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Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
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About homophobes As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.
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So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
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The natural state of mammals is to be somewhat on guard. However, in order to feel emotionally close to another human being, our defensive system must temporarily shut down. In order to play, mate, and nurture our young, the brain needs to turn off its natural vigilance . . . Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while others are too numb to absorb new experiences — or to be alert to signs of real danger . . . Many people feel safe as long as they can limit their social contact to superficial conversations, but actual physical contact can trigger intense reactions. However … achieving any sort of deep intimacy — a close embrace, sleeping with a mate, and sex — requires allowing oneself to experience immobilization without fear. It is especially challenging for traumatized people to discern when they are actually safe and to be able to activate their defenses when they are in danger. This requires having experiences that can restore the sense of physical safety.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
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Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.
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"I’ve escaped from the dreadful clutches of a nap,” she announced to the road.
