Edwina Findley Quotes
I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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Never explain, never complain.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
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Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.
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So the big, bad, and able-to-mind-control angel thinks you’re his. As in ‘I don’t share my woman.
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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.
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See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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There's been a great feeling around the building. This is real good news that everybody's been hoping for. We needed something like this. I think Ted and Mike needed something like this.
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We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
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Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.
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I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.
