Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
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I have known fellows to whom the earth was so full of little pleasures that after the worst clouts they rose like larks from a furrow. A wise philosophy-but I had none of it. I always saw the little pageant of man's life like a child's peep-show beside the dark wastes of eternity.
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I don't care who he is as long as he is a nice person. He must be genuine and honest and have nice eyes and a smile.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
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Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
