Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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Acting's boring.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
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As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
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I have never gauged myself against anyone else.
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My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.
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'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.
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I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.
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The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
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Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
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There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.
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Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
