Lewis Tappan Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand some day... The whole wide world around some day.
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Those rebels who rise up to try to wrest back power from despotic forces will endure not only the violence of the state, but the hatred and vigilante violence meted out by the self-deluded victims of exploitation. The systems of propaganda will relentlessly demonize those who resist.
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If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.
