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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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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Man differs from woman in size, bodily strength, hairyness, &c., as well as in mind, in the same manner as do the two sexes of many mammals.
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I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn't go unnoticed with me.
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
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People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.
