Delia Parr (Mary Lechleidner) Quotes
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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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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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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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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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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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've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.
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I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.
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I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
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No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film.
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People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.
