Brooke Westcott Quotes
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.
Quotes to Explore
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.
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Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
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Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.
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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.
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My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.
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We didn't have a TV until I was 12.
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What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.
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Have you seen the Broadway version of 'The Lion King?' Go and see it. That's where the future of musical is.
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Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.
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I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
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I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.
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If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S.
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We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.
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I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
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I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's been a progressive fighter all her life. And Bernie Sanders, I got to know him during campaigns on Capitol Hill, campaigns across this country. These are two wonderful, fighting souls.
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The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.
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I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.
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Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the plans for the Death Star.
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What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.
