Jacques Ellul Quotes
In one of the temptations Satan offers to give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, that is, the kingdoms and the related political power. …
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.
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People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.
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I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.
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The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
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In one of the temptations Satan offers to give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, that is, the kingdoms and the related political power. …
