Alex Campbell Quotes

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Alex Campbell

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LifeBestProgressSocietyDifficult

I'm a bit of a groupie.

Jerry Hall

GroupieBit

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

Amanda Lindhout

SurviveThinkSpiritHuman SpiritUs

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Michelle Shocked

LifeChangeBestMy LifeChoose

I tend to shut myself off from people. It's gotten harder and harder for me to meet new people. It takes a lot of effort to open up to them and spend time with them.

Julia Stiles

TimeMyselfEffortPeopleMeMeet

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

LoveSometimesDogsEatCowsHorses

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know?

Don Winslow

YouBrooklynKnowMafiaKidLived

Johnny Carson was king of the kings, in my opinion.

Don Rickles

KingOpinionKingsJohnny

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

Deborah K. Ross

FreeStand UpStandSpeechWrongUp

From my perspective, the world's shaped me more than anything else. It's a feedback loop.

Chelsea Manning

PerspectiveMeWorldFeedbackMore

People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

Anthony Edwards

SuccessGoodHappyPeopleThinkWay

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

Paul Washer

GodAlonePrayerSilenceBeing Alone

Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.

Nina Garcia

StyleMyselfPeopleMeChoicesFeel

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