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LOCKHART We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We have been through our changes as individuals and as bands. Sometimes it's been really rough, and ... GRAHAM NASH I really believe Phil Lewis and myself, we are lifers. Before we joined L.A. GUNS , Phil and I had d... STEVE RILEY And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think we have a good mix. We have some guys that have played a lot of football that are on our tea... BRIAN GRIESE We are all disciples of the light. STEVEN MAGEE The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH At some point in our existence, we all wanted things in our lives as it is and we didn't want it to ... KIM SEGURA ENCARNACION Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON 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 Defense wins games, and our kids came out with great intensity and we did everything we were suppose... JACK RENTKO We knew Goose Creek had some pretty good players, and at one point we decided to let (Williams) do w... DEBBIE STROMAN Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today... ANGIE KARAN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA Who cares what are you eating?? Who cares where are you? Who cares what are you posting??<... DEYTH BANGER In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not. ANTHONY T. HINCKS We knew coming into this year that the bar was raised, and I think we all knew what we wanted to do.... BRANDON STEPHENSON I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, a... MACKENZIE FOY It really knotted up on him. We tried to get it out of there, but we were not as successful as we wa... ANDY REID When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ... CELESTINE L. GRAY Frederick Buechner writes, “Intellectually we all know that we will die but we do not really know ... FRANCIS CHAN 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 The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives w... LAURA KNIGHT JADCZYK Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL We are here to create, not destroy. VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė All of our pitchers are really young and we have a lot of sophomores that should get some varsity ex... JUSTIN BROOKS He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss... PATRICK NESS I met with great producers and composers, young people that wanted to give it all in their art, ... ... RICKY MARTIN I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... 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) You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself... MOUTASEM ALGHARATI We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things... JOSE CARRERAS We were sort of struggling in the beginning to find the direction stylistically what exactly we want... ETHAN MENTZER We had a great team meet. We did a great job all together and we had a bunch of young kids perform. ... DAKOTA TEFERTILLER It's good to be in a game like that and still be in it. We have some really young players and they a... DAWN DAY The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We really wanted to set a tone early. We wanted to establish an interior presence, as well as take c... BRUCE HENSLEY We liked our chances against No. 22. He's a great, talented kid. He's just young and inexperienced a... HINES WARD Even if we choose to sever the ties to all we ever knew as home, to redefine the spaces we live in, ... ROBERT GOOLRICK If there's a spirit of fun to the album, it's because we really approached it that way. Here, we hav... JAMIE THOMPSON We knew that we were one of the better teams out there. We believed that we were, and we just wanted... DANNY GREEN Adults like to pretend that our feelings aren’t as big and important as theirs—that we’re too ... COLLEEN HOOVER Our first record wasn't really . . . I don't know . . . us. I mean . . . it had no feeling at all. P... DAN MARSALA Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from t... ERIC HOFFER I think there are some things that if you're from St. Louis you have an inferiority complex about. W... MARK LAMPING We need to as a society to get compassion back into our lives. What we are seeing all over the world... STEVEN ESPINOSA
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TED WILLIAMS According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ... VESTA WILLIAMS A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment. VESTA WILLIAMS I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ... VESTA WILLIAMS When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl. VESTA WILLIAMS I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress... VESTA WILLIAMS And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'... VANESSA WILLIAMS And when people give me their word, I listen to them. VANESSA WILLIAMS Broadway is really my life. VANESSA WILLIAMS My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off. VANESSA WILLIAMS There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you... VANESSA WILLIAMS Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m... VANESSA WILLIAMS I love the French horn. VANESSA WILLIAMS I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d... VANESSA WILLIAMS New York is my home. VANESSA WILLIAMS You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th... VANESSA WILLIAMS The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as hum... VANESSA WILLIAMS I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ... VANESSA WILLIAMS I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitchi... HARLAND WILLIAMS Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in a... HARLAND WILLIAMS I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking a... HARLAND WILLIAMS My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly... HARLAND WILLIAMS I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - a... HARLAND WILLIAMS I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som... HARLAND WILLIAMS I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really ... HARLAND WILLIAMS I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City. HARLAND WILLIAMS I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s... HARLAND WILLIAMS The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster... HARLAND WILLIAMS I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu... HARLAND WILLIAMS I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal la... HARLAND WILLIAMS It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a... HARLAND WILLIAMS If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's ... HARLAND WILLIAMS In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin... HARLAND WILLIAMS What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '... HARLAND WILLIAMS I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, som... HARLAND WILLIAMS