Elias Lyman Magoon Quotes
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.
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There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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I write, I sing, I play... I Amazing Race! Broken Bow recording artist... I'm one third of Runaway June
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Our chefs come up with wonderful specials all the time. Thursdays are lobster night $13.95 and Wednesdays are prime rib night $12.95. We have different specials throughout the week.
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People easily quit their dream because it's not easy.
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Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
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Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
