Maria Monk Quotes
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
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I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
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It is an act of responsibility to exhaust every possibility in averting this (deal).
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Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
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To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?
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Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
