Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes
Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally.
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One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.
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In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
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As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.
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First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.
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When you're not having to deal with all those polling sites it simplifies one's life considerably,
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I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
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That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept me from doing. Everybody always told me "You're going to be something." And of course, I began to raise questions about why it is that white folks treat us the way they do. The breakdown was very vivid. I just all of a sudden felt like I had been overcome by a train.
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You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
