Maria Monk Quotes
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.
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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
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I know that I'm a role model for a lot of people, and I'd like to be. I know that there are people who probably don't agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That's OK.
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For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
