Nan Fairbrother Quotes
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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But I think we need the international market.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
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I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.
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Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares. Another said: I bet that is also a parable. The first said: You have won. The second said: But unfortunately only in parable. The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost.
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I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.
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The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
