"If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them."

-- Paula Rego

#Facts Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Ends Quotes

“My real life helped me sell a lot of records.”
“I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.”
“He kissed me, so gently at first that I melted. I pressed close against him as the kiss deepened, curling my arms around his neck and tumbling into pure sensation. The softness of his hair as I ran my fingers through it; his arms hands on my skin, caressing me. It felt so, so good. I'd been afraid that I'd never have this again--this sense of being so achingly alive that every nerve ending was on fire.”
“I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.”
“We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.”
“I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?”
“When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.”
“Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.”

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