Alan Bennett Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
Victoria Osteen -
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
AJ McLean -
I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
Barry Sternlicht -
As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
Candy Crowley -
I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
Karen Finerman -
I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
Gary Sheffield
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
Dan Jenkins -
We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
Adam Cohen -
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
Edie Brickell -
What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.
Laeta Kalogridis -
People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
Clare Balding -
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
Ariel Gore -
Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I've always been a fan of Five For Fighting's song 'Superman.' It's like an anthem, and I love it.
Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama -
I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.
Alessandro Michele
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. Henry -
Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
Oscar Wilde -
Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.
Ed Martin -
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
Alan Bennett