Delia Parr (Mary Lechleidner) Quotes
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
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I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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I feel it's OK if not everybody agrees with me or likes me. The weird thing was it turned into people thinking I said we deserved it. I didn't say that - but Americans do need to look at their behavior in the world. It's easy to say, 'That was awful,' and hard to ask, 'Is there a way I can amend?'
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.
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The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.
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People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.
