Dawn Lundy Martin Quotes
I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
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He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
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I punched out Kathleen Hanna... Sonic Youth brought her. I punched her, and she screamed, 'I'll take you on, any college in America, any feminist debate,' and I said, 'But Kathleen, that means you're going to have to read!'
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We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.
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I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!
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It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
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It's such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being on a movie set isn't that different from being on 'Monday Night RAW.' It's all stuff that I was prepared for.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
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When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
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I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
