Anthony Charles Edwards Quotes
I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
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I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.
