Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.
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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
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Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
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My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
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Iam seges est ubi Troia fuit.
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Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
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I don't miss it at all. I'm glad I'm out.
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To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.
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I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
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Houston had some injuries to veterans and we were able to overwhelm them in the second half.
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In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the freedom to speak out about what they believe, without fear of repercussions from their very own government.
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What made me empathic was my depressions.
