Gary E. Stevenson Quotes
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.
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If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors it sees for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
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The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.
