Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming-always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again-but always trying and always gaining.
Quotes to Explore
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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I love my sleep.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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I smile a lot in my real life.
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I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.
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The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
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I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
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I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming-always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again-but always trying and always gaining.
