Eliza Parsons Quotes
The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
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I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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I'm usually pretty insecure.
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Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.
