Margaret Turnbull Quotes
When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
Quotes to Explore
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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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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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
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I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.
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I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.
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Some things a lady doesn't tell.
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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
