Una Healy (Una Theresa Imogene Healy) Quotes
What I do know is that my number one job is being a mother. I can't imagine life without my children. My whole future feels bright knowing that they're in it.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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When I came to the states in the mid 1960s - 1964, 1964 - I didn't think I'd be here maybe a couple years, going to have a great experience in the United States and then go back to Canada. Well, here we are 40 years later.
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The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
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When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.
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What I do know is that my number one job is being a mother. I can't imagine life without my children. My whole future feels bright knowing that they're in it.
