Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
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Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.
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What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
