Gene Logsdon Quotes
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
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If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
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It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him 'better.'
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We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.
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Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.
