Maria Monk Quotes
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.
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We have the best-trained military in the world.
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I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for the money.
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When I was little, I was obsessed with Roland Rat. I also loved Danger Mouse. Later on, when I got a bit older, I was obsessed with Ren & Stimpy, but Roland Rat and Danger Mouse, they were my guys. They were my team.
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Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
