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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.
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I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.
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Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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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.
