Ellen Potter Quotes
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
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For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
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Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
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My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
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There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
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The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.
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Many Chinese criticize me not only on Baidu but on Facebook. Some say, do you think Chinese authorities were stupid enough not to realize you were a North Korean defector? If they read my book, they'd understand. I did my best to escape. I think it's all a miracle. It's not because Chinese policemen were stupid enough to believe my fake story.
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What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
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I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.
