Gail Godwin Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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In the Dominican, there are a lot of kids who need help. I just do that for my mom because my mom liked to help a lot of kids in the Dominican. Whoever I am right now is because of her. She gave me the education; she always took care of me like a mommy.
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There was all of about 30 kids where I went to school; we were all one clique.
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My stand-up act is very clean.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
