I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!
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Related In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. CHINESE PROVERB As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO When I was a kid, I looked up to River. He might have had something to do with why I became an actor... GUS VAN SANT In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! L... 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CRAIG GROESCHEL Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and e... THEODORE ROOSEVELT When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity ... KIM COATES When the C-43 first became an Everglades restoration project, quantity was the issue. But then last ... KURT HARCLERODE When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of he... MILAN KUNDERA What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured ma... ARLEN SPECTER When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In the past we will be in games and we have a letdown in an inning, we lose focus or we kick it, and... 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GEORGE PATAKI When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to ... SALLY HAWKINS We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA We came with nothing so we have nothing to lose. We have enough time to feel, experience, and enjoy. DEBASISH MRIDHA We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half lat... SIMON MCBURNEY Freedom is an indivisible word. 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KATE KERRIGAN The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives. ROB LIANO So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it... MICHAEL STIPE Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. Howeve... PEMA CHöDRöN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL We're in a stage of our season, and we've had already two or three stages like this, when we have to... GEORGE KARL [We] had good attendance. We wanted to have it in conjunction with the Board of Governors meeting so... DR. TERRI AGEE Philip insisted it would be wrong for him to break down and be so emotional. But, of course, when we... 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UCHTDORF If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the... CARLES PUIGDEMONT Of course, all the agreements that we made with the Europeans were agreements that the system had em... HASSAN ROHANI Why is it that good times aren't permitted to last? Especially when we have put in so much time and ... LESLIE W.P. GARLAND If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM Jackie come to me and says, 'We gonna do a fight scene.' I said 'What?' He says 'We got to do a figh... CHRIS TUCKER The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower,... SUSAN VREELAND It is important that we celebrate them coming home and appreciate this as our freedom. They are will... BOB LIEBER We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want th... HANYA YANAGIHARA Imagine how fluid life would be if we each had an advisor who, with our best interest at heart, prov... GINA GREENLEE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we wou... BRIE LARSON I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of... T. D. JAKES There's a fine line between going in there and being emotional and allowing it to have an adverse ef... BILL COWHER When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down an... JESS C. SCOTT I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an a... PAM FERRIS The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records ever... MILAN KUNDERA I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school,... JULIAN OVENDEN When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in... PRIYAVRAT THAREJA It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND In the Presence of Love...there are Miracles...Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle ... DEBORAH BROOKS
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DEBORAH NORVILLE So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there. DEBORAH NORVILLE It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing. DEBORAH NORVILLE Grateful people may recover faster from trauma. DEBORAH NORVILLE Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You... DEBORAH MAILMAN A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like... DEBORAH TANNEN The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug... DEBORAH EISENBERG My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb... DEBORAH MAILMAN Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with ... DEBORAH TANNEN In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give con... DEBORAH TANNEN For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in an... DEBORAH TANNEN The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo... DEBORAH COX I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d... DEBORAH COX I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno... DEBORAH MAILMAN Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce... DEBORAH WILES God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness. DEBORAH RANEY Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain... DEBORAH REBER Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses. DEBORAH DAY If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same. DEBORAH DAY True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th... DEBORAH BARNES The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th... DEBORAH MOGGACH The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and... DEBORAH MOGGACH An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the l... DEBORAH TANNEN Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because... DEBORAH TANNEN For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apol... DEBORAH TANNEN If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be a... DEBORAH TANNEN Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80... DEBORAH BULL Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,... DEBORAH KASS I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there. DEBORAH NORVILLE My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early... DEBORAH TANNEN When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when... DEBORAH COX