Edmund the Martyr Quotes
It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
Quotes to Explore
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
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Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.
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An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
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We need innovation and creativity.
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It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.
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Earl was laughing about it by then. He thought it was funny.
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I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.
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At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
