Esther Freud Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:-The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
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Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.
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Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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To enter into a dialogue of mutual interest before the end of July.
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Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
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Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.
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I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.
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Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
