Gail Sheehy Quotes
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
Quotes to Explore
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong.
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If Donald Trump wants to harm cities and the people who call them home, he'll have to come through me.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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Music has always been my first love, and I appreciate how a great musician can bring awareness to tough issues through their work.
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God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
