Beth Moore Quotes
My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
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If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.
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They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking 'outside the box'; and when they die they are put in a box.
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A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It's also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.
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My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.
