David C. Hardesty, Jr. Quotes
The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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The woods are full of long drivers.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.
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The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.
