Tony Parsons Quotes

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

Tony Parsons

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For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Joan Chen

SuccessPastThinkReachDoingKind

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

John Legend

MyselfMeWhyNeverAlwaysSaw

Faith is caused by an encounter with something very real but which has extraordinary qualities which intimate the divine; the belief is due to an encounter which specially mirrors some divine quality.

Robert Nozick

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I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

John Updike

LifeFaithPurposeThinkMy Life

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

Steve Ballmer

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I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

Sue Naegle

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We strongly feel we have to protect everything.

Mike Thompson

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I try not to take sleep medication.

Michael Rosbash

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I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers - I will be true to them and to my beliefs.

Mitt Romney

LiveFaithBelieveBe TrueTrue

I gave my life to Christ about 1991.

Lou Gramm

LifeMy LifeChristAboutGave

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

Joseph Story

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That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

David Selby

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