- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Continental
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.
- Nov 07, 2020
If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.
- Junk Food
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- Nov 07, 2020