Allen Covert Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
Sam Childers
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
Idina Menzel
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
Fiona Apple
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
Daniel Clowes
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
Ze Frank
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
Manu Bennett
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
Ma Jun
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
Hari Kunzru
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
Lady Starlight
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
Valerie June
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
Rahul Gandhi
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
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The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.
Maggie Hassan
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
Carla Gallo
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
Patrick Lencioni
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I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.
Mary-Kate Olsen
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There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.
Vano Merabishvili
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I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.
Abby Brammell
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I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
Jennifer Weiner
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Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.
Allen Covert