Clementa C. Pinckney Quotes
Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.
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Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific natural history, which makes available the groundwork - the foundation work - of what is actually on the Earth.
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The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
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I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.
