Gail Sheehy Quotes
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
Quotes to Explore
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.
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If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.
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We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.
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Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
