Georgia Harkness Quotes
To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
Quotes to Explore
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
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My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
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Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
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No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.
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I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?
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To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
