Luanne Rice Quotes
I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.
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Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.
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I know from personal experience what it's like to be discriminated against. I remember people telling me, 'Ladies don't become lawyers,' and now I look at America and know what can be done.
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I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
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I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
