Sy Montgomery Quotes

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

Sy Montgomery

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Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern.

John McCain

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Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Angie Everhart

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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Mary Augusta Ward

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You go to a protest, and you've got all these different groups saying things you don't necessarily agree with. If I went to a protest, my placard would have to be very long, explaining the ins and outs of my position.

Mike Bartlett

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I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.

Monie Love

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I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.

Judy Blume

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Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 games in a five-month season. For three years in a row, I was working tripleheaders on Saturday and doubleheaders on Sunday.

Doug Harvey

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Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.

Bradley Chicho

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Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Anthony Weiner

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I choose my outfits based on the shows on a particular day. If there's an edgier designer, it might be a slightly edgier outfit. I don't think it matters, but still that's how I think about it.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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To me, such functions are like supermarket openings.

Norton Simon

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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Nikki Giovanni

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