John Strachan Quotes

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

John Strachan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 12, 1778 - November 1, 1867

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In order to not have to deal with being gay in the world, you have to control everything. You try and walk in an un-gay way so as not to be found out. You try to control every situation, check the people around you, that you're not in the wrong place, and that can be exhausting. It goes on for decades, and it becomes mental sickness.

John Grant

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I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

Anna Gunn

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I love my blackness... I love my queerness.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

Mia Love

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I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.

John Updike

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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Alvar Aalto

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I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

Trishelle Cannatella

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

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I'm used to doing U.K. indie films, like, six weeks of filming, tops.

Riz Ahmed

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Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

Miep Gies

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It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things.

Michelle Yeoh

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I feel like I've started to create my own culture of being a voice for something, and that's what people want to know about. I love that because I am a woman and because I a rap, and I look the way I look, I can connect with the demographic of people who feel like they have a voice in me.

Lizzo

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