Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
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I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
J. K. Simmons
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
Namie Amuro
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
J. D. Vance
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
Najib Mikati
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
Naveen Jain
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
Idina Menzel
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
Panayiotis Zavos
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
W. H. Auden
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
A. E. Housman
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Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
Saint Augustine
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I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.
Elaine Stritch
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A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.
Emily St. John Mandel
