Elayne Boosler Quotes
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
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If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.
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I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
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People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.
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Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.
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...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
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Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.
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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
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There's not a time we're in that building that we're not doing some type of conditioning. We never really have a day off.
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No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.
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Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.
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What do hookers do on their nights off, type?
