Ann Oakley Quotes
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
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Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
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The future peopling of Mars is much more than a scientific endeavor. It is a step of historic and spiritual importance for the human race.
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It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
