Zoe Akins (Zoe Byrd Akins) Quotes
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
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Chrysler builds great cars.
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Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
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Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
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It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.
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There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.
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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
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People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.
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It is your job to make the digital revolution happen. It is my job to make sure that it happens in the interest of the consumer.
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Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.
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I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.
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No one can ever help loving anyone.
