Jennifer McMahon Quotes

Honestly, I feel pretty awed anytime I meet just about any writer. I get how hard it is to write and make a living from it, but there's also this almost magical force you need to tap into, and I'm amazed by anyone who can do it.

Jennifer McMahon

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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Jimmy Carter

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But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

Jim Wallis

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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Michael Berryman

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I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

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If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Roger Milla

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In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.

Michael Shermer

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I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

Little Richard

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I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

Little Richard

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During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.

Dean Karnazes

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I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.

Colbie Caillat

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In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

Brion James

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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

William Standish Knowles

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