Gabrielle Roy Quotes
it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.
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Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.
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There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes.
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I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.
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it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
