Cobie Smulders Quotes
I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend? It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.
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I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.
