"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."

-- Clara Barton

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“But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.”
“Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.”

Source : "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.”
“Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.”
“I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.”
“Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?”
“Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus infection, and the entire film crew with a flu so severe they had to delay their departure from the motel. Our immune systems had weakened, I believe, from the beating out souls had taken.”

Source : Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, p.6, Basic Books
“When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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