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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
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Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [Immorality Act of 1927].… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his… — Jimmy Cannon Copy Share Image
In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath,… — Karen Cushman Copy Share Image
I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who… — Stephanie Seymour Copy Share Image
Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they… — Rumer Willis Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The United States of America was the first place on earth where average people had the opportunity to become the greatest among… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No. The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I was a superlate bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. I always wanted to be able to keep the number… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know… — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be-… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
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I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
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My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image