Cynthia Voigt Quotes
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
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I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
