Marvin Humes (Marvin Richard James Humes) Quotes
Definitely has been the strangest birthday I’ve had but I’m grateful for another year and for the love from all my family, friends and everyone today..in times like this I’m grateful to have my loved ones with me…
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.
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Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.
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This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
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Definitely has been the strangest birthday I’ve had but I’m grateful for another year and for the love from all my family, friends and everyone today..in times like this I’m grateful to have my loved ones with me…
