Jen Selinsky Quotes
When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the gretest feeling in the world!
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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I love to be surprised.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.
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There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
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Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
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Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
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I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.
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When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the gretest feeling in the world!
