Maria Monk Quotes
Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.
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I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.
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I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
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Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.
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The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
