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Centered Quotes
Finding your steady middle ground.
These lines explore what keeps a person grounded, from years of dance that built deep bodily awareness to a pastor whose work stays anchored in shared understanding of scripture. One speaker recalls a defining city kept at arm's length. See Family.
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- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are different pastors that are good at different things, but one of the things I love is everything I do as a pastor is centered around helping people to understand what God has said in his word, so I don't have to come up with a bunch of new stuff to say.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the discrimination I have encountered centered on the view that I am not a part of this great nation, even though I grew up in Ohio, graduated from law school in Washington, D.C., and received my commission in the U.S. Air Force in 1991.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is centered around God and faith.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020