Louise Brown Quotes
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.
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Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
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Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.
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I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.
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Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.
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What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
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My job is a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.
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Maybe my face is edgy, but that's because it's the face of somebody who's seen life.
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It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
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I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.
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Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's
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We were rags in the hands of a narcoleptic duster.
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If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
